Re: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration System

["Dave Frankson" <dfrankson@qwest.net>]

    Java is byte-code interpretted, but I wouldn't even call JSP a scripting
language.  Our persistent Java objects inherit from an XMLObject base class
that uses introspection to turn any data object into XML in only a hundred
lines of code.  Advanced OO-techniques like this would be hard to do in PHP.

I've been very happy with the work done by Apache, and we use 5 different
Apache open-source projects in our application.

Dave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Sun" <js9s@lycos.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration System


> XML+XSLT methodology has little to do  with lanuage, and java is a
"scripting" language. you can do XML+XSLT stuff in perl, python as well.  It
just that tomcat and cocoon offer a standard way of doing this, and it java.
>
> --
>
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:10:31
>  Dave Frankson wrote:
> >    We want to get away from scripting languages such as ASP or PHP.  We
> >encapsulate all our business logic into persistent java objects. Methods
> >like calculating term gpa exists in a single place in our application,
and
> >are reusable from all other parts.
> >
> >Currently we have a single set of business logic that returns most
> >everything in XML.  This is matched with an XSLT page on our server to
> >produce DHTML for PCs, HTML (dumped down) for Macs, 240x320 HTML for PDAs
> >with PocketIE, PDFs for printed reports, and WML for smart phones.  Or
the
> >XML is used directly for district-to-district record transfer, or
> >transformed to a SIF-compatible format.
> >
> >This way we dont't need to recode our business logic on a dozen different
> >ASP or PHP pages.
> >
> >So far we've scaled up to a 44,000 student district without problems.
Linux
> >has less overhead than NT, especially when we yank out everything we dont
> >need.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Douglas Loss" <dloss@suscom.net>
> >To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
> >Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:44 PM
> >Subject: Fw: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration
System
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: DraX <drax@whiplash.stampede.org>
> >> > To: seul-edu@seul.org
> >> > Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student
> >> > Administration System
> >> >
> >> > impressive, but i must say java has a bit of over head, if
> >> > you're using
> >> > ASP now a better option might be using PHP, it's an incredibly
> >> > powerful
> >> > language from my experinces(coding an online classroom in it).
> >> >
> >> --
> >> Doug Loss           The art of medicine consists of amusing the
> >> dloss@suscom.net    patient while nature cures the disease.
> >> (570) 326-3987             Voltaire
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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