RE: Java servlets vs traditional CGI programming solutions

["Christopher J. Jewell (Jewell Consulting)" <jewellcj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger:

I have not actually programmed servlets on the AS/400. However I have
written servlets on my local PC for educational purposes. But, since the
AS/400 is, as we know, very good at this kind of thing (cf: the speed of
NetServer), and since servlets are persistent processes running in the web
server, unlike CGI processes which must be spawned as separate threads on
every invocation, I'm quite sure they will run very fast!

Once I've got around to doing this on the AS/400, I'll let the group know,
(or maybe there's someone out there who's done this already who can
comment?)

Chris Jewell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Roger Pence
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 4:00 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Java servlets vs traditional CGI programming solutions
>
>
> >Servlets are an excellent way of replacing your CGI programs which are
> quite
> >cumbersome to program. Servlets also produce a stream file of HTML
> directly...
>
> Hmmm. You might be on to something... While I disagree that writing CGI
> programs is cumbersome to program (cumbersome only in that ILE RPG, while
> way ahead of RPG/400, is still pretty crappy!), you make an
> interesting case
> for Java as a rational alternative for this task.
>
> How is the Java servlets' performance for you on the AS/400? Appropriate?
> (must be).
>
> Thanks for shining a light down this hallway.
>
> rp
>

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