Re: Development as Configuration

dawn wrote:

> I just did a little Java Server Faces prototype. It included:
> jsp (which is a spec'ing language for java servlets)
> xhtml
> css
> javascript
> java (beans)
> properties files
>
> and if I had done more, it would have had xml too, with xml schema, and
> then often SQL for persistence, perhaps also a stored procedure flavor
> of SQL and of course compiled with an ant script (xml). Maybe I've
> gotten to those "remember the good ole' days" age, but this sure seems
> like a lot of varying "languages" to have to be proficient in just to
> write a small app with a GUI and a DB.

Hi dawn O:-)

Why use SQL for persistence? Any filesystem could provide that, no? Received on Wed May 04 2005 - 01:56:21 CEST