From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Apr 1 19:45:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F137B37B990 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12bbFw-0006NW-00; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:40:56 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:40:54 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Viktors Rotanovs Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Free Application Servers In-Reply-To: <38E3E633.23DE14C9@riga.nu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Viktors Rotanovs wrote: > Hello! > > Maybe not exactly FreeBSD or ISP question, but anyway... > What do people use for building portal and shop > hybrid? Minivend, Zope, Enhydra, or something else? > > Just for reference: > http://www.minivend.com/ > http://www.enhydra.org/ > http://www.zope.org/ minivend is basically a catalog system. The others are just application servers. If you are into Python, Zope is probably for you. If you are into Java, Enhydra (or Jserv, Caucho, Jakarta, Locomotive) is probably for you. There are many differences. JServ is basically just a Java servlet runner (see Sun web site for servlet API). Jakarta is a new branch of Jserv based on some new code. Jserv/Jakarta is compliant to an ancient version of the servlet API. Caucho is a faster servlet runner, and compliant to the 2.2 api. I have no idea why anyone uses Jserv still. Java servlet runners fall into the class of server side scripting. Locomotive and Enhydra are Java servlet runners with lots of add on bells and whistles. They are basically what people call "application servers." PHP and ASP (via Chillisoft) are other server side scripting languages. Both are really popular, probably more so than any of the above. Chillisoft has recently brought ASP to Unix (well Linux at least). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message