Re: The Revenge of the Geeks
From: Arne Vajhøj <arne_at_vajhoej.dk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:17:48 -0500
Message-ID: <5101f95f$0$293$14726298_at_news.sunsite.dk>
On 1/24/2013 10:10 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 1/24/2013 4:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj 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...
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:17:48 -0500
Message-ID: <5101f95f$0$293$14726298_at_news.sunsite.dk>
On 1/24/2013 10:10 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 1/24/2013 4:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj 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.
Arne Received on Fri Jan 25 2013 - 04:17:48 CET