Re: CGI vs JSP...

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Seth Newton
> 
> I've also had some experience with Java, and I think it's also a great
> language, but I have to side with RPG for database-driven web applications
> on the AS/400.

Okay, I'll ask again.  Have you written any JSP/servlet applications which
use a thin JSP layer over RPG business logic?  If you use JSP for nothing
more than presentation (converting EBCDIC to ASCII and the like), it's
blindingly fast.  The code gets compiled down to machine level and it's
really quite spectacular.

Take our just-released AIRPort project as an example.  I use a combination
of AJAX and JSP to create a portal framework that is incredibly fast.  We
just released the alpha proof-of-concept version at SourceForge (you can get
it at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/airport).  Of course, as I type
this the SourceForge website is having some serious technical difficulties.

In the meantime you can read more about AIRPort in a couple of articles I
wrote for MCPress Online (the second one has the code available for
download):

http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6b37286c
http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6b375444

I'll put a back end process on this and see how it fares, but my guess is
that it will still be pretty quick.  And the nice thing with this approach
is that it really lends itself to paging.

Joe