Chris,
Thanks for your input. If anyone else wants to share how they
are using Turbine or how it shouldn't be used, I would welcome
the input.
mike
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:23:27PM -0400, Chris Kimpton wrote:
> > Here are our issues:
>
> > It sounds crazy but I think the documentation written is turbine-centric;
> > meaning it seems to have been written by someone who is too close to the
> > topic. Several people have read the documentation and still can't explain
> > exactly what it is. I would welcome more description from people who
> > are using turbine.
>
> Turbine is a Java servlet based tool, with some integration into other options -
>specifically webmacro, which is a templates solution to the designer/coder split of
>work - that is, designers generally work in html, producing files that have webmacro
>codes in them, which the server side then expands to display to the client. All the
>code/business code will be done in Java, called from Turbine.
>
> Try this link for general info on the design -
>http://www.zend.com/zend/art/free-energy.php
>
>
>
>
> > Several of our group members are non-java people. They write scripts
> > in perl for network management, snmp data gathering, as well as
> > using the output of programs like mrtg and cricket draw to
> > display
> > router information on a web page. Can these tools be integrated with turbine?
>
> I would think not - unless you can access the data from Java - either directly or
>via some kind of intermediary, eg a flat file or database.
>
> > Is it for servlets only? Can a non-java developer produce a
> > piece of
> > code (e.g. cgi script) written in (c/c++/pyton/perl) and integrate
> > it easily within the turbine framework?
>
> I would think not on this too - if you have html designers and java coders, then yes
>- but perl/python etc - you might be spending too much time integrating - there might
>be something more appropriate for your skills (is their a Turbine in perl?)
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris
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