Re: application server

2001-05-21 Thread brian moseley
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Brian Aker wrote: > Nope, the opposite. A year or two ago I was at the perl > conference and noticed sun passing out a marketing flier > as to why you should write web apps in Java. They > specifically defined servlet as a persistent component > that could have a persistent c

Re: application server

2001-05-21 Thread Brian Aker
brian moseley wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Brian Aker wrote: > > > FWIW I refer to any perl code that is persistent and is > > making use of mod_perl as a servlet. > > "servlet" is a specific term coined by sun referring to a a > specific component in the servlet api. you're just being > unc

Re: application server

2001-05-21 Thread Gerald Richter
> > the end goal of a application server is to simplify the > entire process of developing and deploying a complete > application, not just one part of it. we're really talking > about a whole different order of magnitude. > I agree to you with this goal (and that&#x

Re: application server

2001-05-21 Thread brian moseley
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Brian Aker wrote: > FWIW I refer to any perl code that is persistent and is > making use of mod_perl as a servlet. "servlet" is a specific term coined by sun referring to a a specific component in the servlet api. you're just being uncreative and confusing. ---

Re: application server

2001-05-21 Thread brian moseley
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gerald Richter wrote: > I agree to Matt, there is nothing missing for an > application server, it's mainly a matter of installation > and documentation, so for people not familar with CPAN > it's maybe hard to find. you're both missing my po

Re: application server

2001-05-20 Thread Brian Aker
Gerald Richter wrote: > I think "Application Server" is not a well defined term, so we may not get > consensus here what it is. What's about calling the section "Application > Servers/Toolkits running under mod_perl". Then it's up to the reader how > he/s

Re: application server

2001-05-20 Thread Gerald Richter
> so I think we're fully justified in calling these things application > servers. > I agree to Matt, there is nothing missing for an application server, it's mainly a matter of installation and documentation, so for people not familar with CPAN it's maybe hard to find.

Re: application server

2001-05-20 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 17 May 2001, brian moseley wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, brian moseley wrote: > > > i think "application server" describes a system that > > does more than implementing a templating language. > > er, that's not to diss anybody's software. ev

application server

2001-05-20 Thread brian moseley
On Thu, 17 May 2001, brian moseley wrote: > i think "application server" describes a system that > does more than implementing a templating language. er, that's not to diss anybody's software. everything on that short list is great stuff. but i stand behind my asse