Hello everyone, I'd like your thoughts and advice. I've been evaluating different middleware for a few years...testing and comparing and so forth. In the process of launching a new web application business (Alpha Motion, ETA 4/9), I've had to give everything another look and decide on a dominant platform to use. I've done the rounds...PHP, ASP, CF, J2EE, ASP.NET, Ruby, and various Python frameworks. Coming from a PHP background w/some Java, Webware is a great fit. But, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be that easy.
In trying to find affordable hosting for my clients, *everyone* offers PHP, so that's an easy choice. But, I have issues with PHP's CGI methodology, nevermind its messy function library, less than spectacular OOP support, and verbosity. If you're willing to spend more, a lot of times you can get ASP/ASP.NET, CF, or Java. But, Python is not often supported as a web application platform. I have found some hosts that have Python available, but they lack the hooks into Apache that would make it worthwhile, e.g. FastCGI or mod_* (I'm very concerned about performance). Hosts seem to think that FastCGI poses possible security and stability problems. I haven't used it, but it sounds pretty sweet. The other sticking point is that no one wants you to have long running processes, e.g. WebKit. Another concern is actually using WebKit in a multi-client situation. I do not know if WebKit has the necessary security and sandboxing to keep applications separate for different users. If it doesn't, a WebKit instance per-user does not sound appealing. I also have concerns about the need to restart WebKit in order to introduce module changes (and sometimes application changes, in my experience). That's one nicety of some J2EE app servers--hot swapping apps, etc. It would be nice to *never* have to shutdown WebKit. So, from where I'm standing, unless I'm ready to co-locate and essentially 'be a host' myself, Webware doesn't seem like the right choice. I know many of you are using Webware for commercial purposes. What do you? Thoughts/comments? Jacob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
