>
> I'd like to know the viability of starting a large e-commerce
> project using the IBM kit.
>
IBM provide a host of features to do this in a open systems kind of way.
Currently the servlet engine version level on Linux is lower than NT, but it
is soon to be fixed.
One to watch out for is that if you deploy your application on the IBM s/w
then you need to pay for it.
But, you could do development here and deploy to Apache/Tomcat ....
> And what it's like to use Java Servlets as compared to
> perl/python scripting.
It is fast. Blazingly fast. If you have any thoughts on that Java is slow,
put it aside. Java on the server side is all cached and the servlet compiles
one and so does the JSP page and for dynamic page rendering it is the
fastest we have found.
There a lot of benefits with using the servlet/JSP model. Session management
over the stateless HTTP protocol is a joy to use. If you have done
cookie/url rewriting in the past with C/Perl/etc.., you will be amazed to
see how easy the servlet api is to use.
VAJ is a good tool to code/test your servlets. Just needs lots of memory.
>
> Does the Websphere product offer any built-in scripting? Or is
> it Java based?
>
Out of the box scripting is Java based both for the server side and the
client side presentation.
> Since IBM HTTPD is based on Apache, I imgine we could use perl
> where it suited us.
Yes
>
> I wonder if you can compile your own IBM HTTPD? Or is it "out of the box?"
IBM supplies the source code from which they compiled Apache. So, you can
recompile it if you want to.
They only value add the SSL / GUI based admin and also provide a performance
pack with a cache accelerator and a Network Dispatcher.
-- Aravind
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