Re: How hard is Java, really?

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Again, the argument seems to come back consistently to the fact that you
don't like Java.

You keep labeling me as a anti Java guy.  I USE JAVA ALMOST EVERY DAY!  By
using it everyday (in a different capacity than you) I have come to find
that it is not as good a choice for most things on the System i5 when you
are talking about a shop that is primarily RPG.  Hopefully we can lay this
one to rest.


> Simplest answer?  DOS attacks. If your primary business machine has no
Internet connection, it cannot be affected by Denial of Service.

I am not a network guy so I may be speaking out of turn here, but can't DOS
attacks and the like be handled by network appliances vs. needing a
dedicated server to host your UI layer?  I have never implemented a DOS
attack, but if I were to I would imagine I would figure out a path into an
application that emulated a users visit and repeat that many times over in
an automated fashion from many machines.  In that case the front end on your
other box is processing each request and communicating to the backend server
the same as before, but now it is exponentially more traffic on both the JSP
server and the i5 - correct?  Like I said, I am not a network guy but I
would have to imagine that even in your JSP server scenario you would still
want a network appliance taking care of repetitious calls from the same IP
(or whatever the algorithm is for DOS attack detection).


Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com