Re: web development (seeking opinion)

Thanks Sean,
Perhaps, even after so much time, there is no definite popular internet programming language (standard), like which is the case with database (oracle). I got all mixed responses, you suggested Perl + DBI & Apache, and another told ASP & IIS and there is java widely supported by oracle. I tend to go towards reliable combination, so i chose Perl. But, I've seen quite hype about JAVA. And some times i think that there are things that get popular, even when they don't provide the benefit which they originally aclaimed. I remember about CD's, during its introduction, it was promoted as 99% fool proof. Now you have to save it even from tiny dust particles. But, still, some of its benefits were so immense it is a standard now.

I try to lean towards the direction where the market is heading. I want to learn somthing that is (or will be) WIDELY popular. I will be starting with java and after some footing on JAVA, i'll move towards perl. Based on your suggestions, i think, Perl DBI & Apache would be more robust and scalable for e-commerce at the moment.

Shuja
OCP - Application Developer Release 1 & 2

sean.hull_at_pobox.com wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mohammad Shuja wrote:
>
> > as there are software companies. I want to know, which is by far the
> > most popular and scalable web-database combination these days, specially
> > with the oracle database as the backend, in your OPINION. I don't wanna
> > start with something that won't last in the future.
>
> I'm not a big fan of Java for web development efforts because development
> is somewhat slow, and performance can be disappointing.
>
> In my opinion, Apache/mod_php/php is a *VERY* powerful combination which
> works very well with Oracle. There are many production internet sites fed
> off of this combination. Also, Apache/mod_perl/DBI is very powerful.
>
> http://www.apache.org/
> http://www.php.net/
> http://perl.apache.org/
> http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html
>
> Some other very powerful technologies are:
>
> http://www.masonhq.com/
> http://perl.apache.org/embperl/
> http://photo.net/doc/
> http://www.firstworks.com/site/pages/html/frames.html
>
> HTH,
> Sean
>
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Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 15:36:41 CDT