Re: The Revenge of the Geeks

From:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:10:12 -0500

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On 1/25/2013 12:06 AM, BGB wrote:

On 1/24/2013 9:17 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 1/24/2013 10:10 PM, BGB wrote:

On 1/24/2013 4:58 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 1/24/2013 5:10 PM, BGB wrote:

otherwise, not entirely sure why developing for these would be all
that
much different than dealing with a normal PC or Linux box.

It is not the type of box that makes a difference.

You can run a Java EE app server on your laptop.

You laptop does just not have the IO system and the 24x7
reliability to run in most production contexts.

The difference in development is the services provided by the
server that the application can utilize if the application follows
the rules.

I have a web-server I am running on an old laptop, it uses Windows XP,
Apache, and also has PHP, MySQL, and MediaWiki...

If you decided that you preferred Java over PHP, then
you would replace PHP with a Java EE web container (Tomcat
would be obvious) and write your web app using Java EE
technologies like servlet, JSP and JSF.

I use PHP mostly for sake of running MediaWiki, which is probably the
biggest/most complicated thing on the site.

You could use Java for the same purpose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAMWiki

my own CGI binaries have typically been written in C and compiled into
EXE's before being copied over to the server.

Servlets that are the part of Java EE which is pure Java code that
get executed by HTTP requests.

But inlike CGI scripts they get loaded once and kept in memory
and run in threads not in separate processes.

Arne