Re: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration System

["Jay Sun" <js9s@lycos.com>]

XML+XSLT methodology has little to do  with lanuage, and java is a "scripting" language. you can do XML+XSLT stuff in perl, python as well.  It just that tomcat and cocoon offer a standard way of doing this, and it java.

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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:10:31   
 Dave Frankson wrote:
>    We want to get away from scripting languages such as ASP or PHP.  We
>encapsulate all our business logic into persistent java objects. Methods
>like calculating term gpa exists in a single place in our application, and
>are reusable from all other parts.
>
>Currently we have a single set of business logic that returns most
>everything in XML.  This is matched with an XSLT page on our server to
>produce DHTML for PCs, HTML (dumped down) for Macs, 240x320 HTML for PDAs
>with PocketIE, PDFs for printed reports, and WML for smart phones.  Or the
>XML is used directly for district-to-district record transfer, or
>transformed to a SIF-compatible format.
>
>This way we dont't need to recode our business logic on a dozen different
>ASP or PHP pages.
>
>So far we've scaled up to a 44,000 student district without problems.  Linux
>has less overhead than NT, especially when we yank out everything we dont
>need.
>
>Dave
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Douglas Loss" <dloss@suscom.net>
>To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:44 PM
>Subject: Fw: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration System
>
>
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:
>>
>> > From: DraX <drax@whiplash.stampede.org>
>> > To: seul-edu@seul.org
>> > Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student
>> > Administration System
>> >
>> > impressive, but i must say java has a bit of over head, if
>> > you're using
>> > ASP now a better option might be using PHP, it's an incredibly
>> > powerful
>> > language from my experinces(coding an online classroom in it).
>> >
>> --
>> Doug Loss           The art of medicine consists of amusing the
>> dloss@suscom.net    patient while nature cures the disease.
>> (570) 326-3987             Voltaire
>>
>>
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