Comment Re:Nice Solution Exists now (Score 1) 136
Seconded - I do this stuff for a living and this is the solution that we are selling to our customers (we = IBM, I am a middleware consultant in the UK). Additional advantages to this technology in no particular order :
1. Platform independance - these are standard APIs and will run with any Web Application Server, which will plug into any WebServer
2. Coding is in Java which is currently cool - I won't bore you with the rest of the arguments for Java
3. Architecturally it makes a lot of sense in that it splits tasks between those best suited for it - Servlets can be coded by Java Hackers, JSP can be coded by HTML guys as it is essentially a simple superset
4. All the work is done server side, so your browser only sees HTML, meaning it doesn't have to support all the latest "standards"
5. Servlets/JSP lead naturally into Enterprise Java Bean technology which is where you get all of your mission critical, scalable fault tolerant attributes from.
I believe that this is the best way forward for thin client, and to put my money where my mouth is so to speak, I am writing a killer web app in my spare time based in this technology.
If you want to try this stuff, as Chris says, you can download Apache JServ for servlets, and there is a GNU implementation of JSP - also you can download IBM's WebSphere which is cooly available for Linux. (www.software.ibm.com)
Thats it for now ...
1. Platform independance - these are standard APIs and will run with any Web Application Server, which will plug into any WebServer
2. Coding is in Java which is currently cool - I won't bore you with the rest of the arguments for Java
3. Architecturally it makes a lot of sense in that it splits tasks between those best suited for it - Servlets can be coded by Java Hackers, JSP can be coded by HTML guys as it is essentially a simple superset
4. All the work is done server side, so your browser only sees HTML, meaning it doesn't have to support all the latest "standards"
5. Servlets/JSP lead naturally into Enterprise Java Bean technology which is where you get all of your mission critical, scalable fault tolerant attributes from.
I believe that this is the best way forward for thin client, and to put my money where my mouth is so to speak, I am writing a killer web app in my spare time based in this technology.
If you want to try this stuff, as Chris says, you can download Apache JServ for servlets, and there is a GNU implementation of JSP - also you can download IBM's WebSphere which is cooly available for Linux. (www.software.ibm.com)
Thats it for now
