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fp_unit · 07-06-2005, 12:56 PM

I am in the process of researching technologies for a web application - our main codebase is written in Perl, but for this application I decided it might be better to look at other technologies. I originally thought PHP5, but after spending much of the day looking at it, I think Java Servlets might be better suited seeing as how I'm used to a more type-oriented language. I don't claim to know Java well, but I know the basics of writing applications, and have spent a fair amount of time on the Swing tutorial as well as the API docs. I also have a pretty good handle on Object Oriented concepts from programming C++, but Java is slightly different and it might take a bit for me to get used to that.

What I dont know much about is where to get started with Servlet programming. We have a web server set up running our Apache server on port 80 - this runs our core website, and I would need to write this tool to fit somewhere into that system. Currently the server runs PHP and mod_perl, I have heard about things like Apache Tomcat and Catalina, but I'm not sure what I'd need for my project. I'm going to start researching now but I figured I would post this question so I can check back on it and compare my results to the answer(s) here.

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fp_unit mike Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ottawa, ON Posts: 79	Getting started with Servlets I am in the process of researching technologies for a web application - our main codebase is written in Perl, but for this application I decided it might be better to look at other technologies. I originally thought PHP5, but after spending much of the day looking at it, I think Java Servlets might be better suited seeing as how I'm used to a more type-oriented language. I don't claim to know Java well, but I know the basics of writing applications, and have spent a fair amount of time on the Swing tutorial as well as the API docs. I also have a pretty good handle on Object Oriented concepts from programming C++, but Java is slightly different and it might take a bit for me to get used to that. What I dont know much about is where to get started with Servlet programming. We have a web server set up running our Apache server on port 80 - this runs our core website, and I would need to write this tool to fit somewhere into that system. Currently the server runs PHP and mod_perl, I have heard about things like Apache Tomcat and Catalina, but I'm not sure what I'd need for my project. I'm going to start researching now but I figured I would post this question so I can check back on it and compare my results to the answer(s) here.