Re: CGI vs JSP...

> From: Seth Newton
> 
> By the way, I ran this on a 520 500 CPW machine, and I did turn debugging
> off in CGIDEV2.  I am convinced now more than ever that RPG CGI is faster
> than Java and any studies that show otherwise are based on specific tools
> that may not implement CGI efficiently.

Ah geez.  Now I have to get into this.

Seth, what is this "Java" you are talking about?  Are you talking about a
thin JSP/servlet environment over an RPG back end, or are you talking about
writing your entire application in Java?  The former is every bit as fast,
if not faster, than RPG-CGI.  The latter is not, and that's why nobody
suggests it anymore.

The best answer from a combination of deployment flexibility and performance
is a very thin JSP/servlet layer on top of an RPG back end.  Couple this
with an AJAX framework for thin portlet implementation (like the new Open
Source AIRPort project I'm involved in) and you may well have the killer
architecture.

One reason I particularly like AIRPort, by the way, is the fact that it
easily combines JSP/servlet with RPG-CGI with any other technology.

Joe