Re: alternative approaches - C, Java, etc.

From: Doytchin Spiridonov (info@webyou.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 17:24:48 EDT


Why exactly do you need to do that with Java??

Right now we are developing an online airline reservation system
and we chosen Java,JSP,Oracle and WebLogic and believe
me now I am not sure that was the best option :)))

Regards,
Doytchin.

Noah Couture wrote:

> Hey folks, I'm still hoping to figure out this java approach. I
> was thinking of trying to do some sort of java/perl bridge. I've
> never looked into the xs stuff much, but I was thinking it would be
> possible to do a C wrapper for the perl calls, and then JNI that into
> java. But thats three layers,.. icky. I found a perl module called
> jperl that supposedly would let you just call a perl interpreter, but
> it wanted java 1.1.4 and i'm stuck with 1.2.1. As far as I could
> tell, it just didn't work anyhow. Meanwhile, O'reilly has JPL, but
> thats a commercial product it seems. I guess you have to buy the 6
> book set of perl stuff to get it. I could also try to use the
> encryption libraries in java itself to send messages, but from the
> mailing lists I started to wonder if anything but very specific
> libraries would work. So, I was thinking i'd use the C library that
> 'bboy' posted. I've gotten it to work as far as logging in, but he
> didn't write any specific code for sending any particular commands so
> far as I can tell. So, my only concern about using that (with JNI
> from my servlet/EJB context) is that its a bit crustier than the perl
> stuff, and OpenSRS will likely do something that breaks it within 3
> days of me going live. I also thought about writing a simple daemon
> that used the library, I could open a socket from my servlets and talk
> to this little daemon that would relay messages to the server. So,
> this is a bit of noodling about.. I'm very interested in folks'
> opinions on this subject. --noah



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