On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > I think it's reasonable for Wombat to be included in P5EE officially as an > answer to J2EE, but I don't see it really taking off in the same vein as > SOAP, a transaction engine, and/or messaging engine part of J2EE for two > reasons:
not at all my point :) i think the standards should exist for enterprise development, and if they creep over into other application areas, cool. i am not holding my thing up as the solution. mod_perl itself provides about 80% of the ground covered in the servlet api. with a few extensions you could easily write a specification for enterprise applications based directly on mod_perl, and perhaps another based on cgi. i'm the first to admit the servlet api is pretty heavyweight. just make sure you really evaluate the landscape and don't try to assume that people writing enterprise applications are always going to want to use modperl. at least not without proving that assumption. i'm really just interested in seeing *something*, and i think maybe holding the java servlet api up as an example of the type of thing that can be done is a good starting point.
