Re: Language choice for high-volume Oracle CGI interface?

Greg McCann <gregm_at_well.com> wrote:
>We're doing a proposal for a system doing high-volume financial transactions on
>the internet. We're expecting 10,000 transactions per day at the beginning, up
>to 1,000,000 transactions per day eventually. The client has specified an
>Oracle database with an NT web server, using SSL for secure communications both
>between the browser client and our server and between remote servers and our
>main server.
>
>We're debating what language to use for the CGI programming.

Don't use CGI for high-volume transactions. It spawns a process with a new database session for every hit. Use Oracle Application Server instead. A good programming language would be PL/SQL or Java (Oracle 8i). This solution would be Oracle-dependent, but Microsoft-independent.

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Vriendelijke groet,
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Rene Pijlman <R.Pijlman_at_applinet.nl>
http://www.applinet.nl/ Informatiesystemen & Internet Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 11:33:21 CDT