Re: Some Noob Questions
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Kyle T. Jones wrote:
Any examples of well-known apps written in Java (such as Vuze, for one)?
Particularly anything that involves networking and/or security.
http://www.hsbc.com/
http://www.santander.com/
http://www.bankofamerica.com/
For instance, IIRC, the mozilla projects are written in C++ - although
the addons (again, IIRC) are generally done in Java. Why?
Oh, you mean *desktop* apps? No, not so many.
Need to occasionally put together a web-app for the organization I
work for - so far have been cobbling things together using Javascript
and PHP. Security is an issue - would like to write secure code, of
course - would J2EE be suitable for these sort of apps? Basically, I
occasionally have to put together some kind of database-driven dynamic
page that's truly fairly simple/straightforward (use MySQL for database)
- the emphasis here is placed on function rather than aesthetics.
Java would do. Python would probably do better.
Need to do some System Administration work that requires occasional
scripting - I know Java isn't a scripting language, but would it work
for throwing together occasional apps to make changes to clients, or
check various features of their systems (whether new processes are
running, changing host files, checking size of a few directories, stuff
like that). I've been looking at python a bit for this, (and Django as
a possible framework for the pages I mentioned above) - but have some
reservations. Any compare/contrast comments would be greatly
appreciated.
Python is the way to go here. Don't tell anyone on cljp i said this, but
it's basically miles better than java.
Eventually would be interested in writing basic firewall apps and a few
other things along those lines - related to network security.
What I want, basically, is the best language for writing networking
apps, with an eye toward security. Hope this is all making sense.
Firewalls and 'networking apps' are completely different to websites and
systems administration. What do you actually want to do?
I'm looking at this over a "years" time line - really want to choose one
language and learn it well, but want to make sure I've picked one that's
suitable for what I'd like to do, long-term.
The standard advice is to learn several languages, for a wider view. But
sensible advice is to make python one of them.
tom
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