SPUG: Java, Perl, large-scale projects

[Eric Johanson]

My 2c,

When I worked at cobalt in Jan 2000, there was a 'big push for java'.  The
basis I was told was that it leaks to much for modperl, and they are
spending a fortune in hardware.   The performance of the code was terrible.

The 'patch' at the time was to have the perl output as much static data as
possible - - that helped, but it was still a problem for all of the
dynamic content.  I'm shocked that they haven't rolled java out yet - it
has been over 2 years of development time (I recall estimates of  _a few
months_ to port it - - I guess that didn't happen).

I hope that Creede can give us an update.  I would think that something is
up in java at this point.

http://dealernet.com/ - still using .cgi
http://www.toyotadealer.com/seattle/ - still using .cgi

Please don't read the wrong thing into this post; Cobalt was a fun place
to work, and there had been some great people to work with.

-Eric

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Marc M. Adkins wrote:

> > And up until recently the entire shebang was written in Perl.
> > (They are now
> > making a push to a Java-based platform, which has only recently gotten
> > started.)
>
> I would be interested in the reasoning behind the change.  I'm not being
> argumentative, I'm really curious.
>
> Marc M. Adkins
>
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