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

[root <jhuns@vt.edu>]

sounds like the persistent objects and interpretted objects that we use in
object oriented php.  it isn't that hard to do at all.
Dave Frankson wrote:

>     Java is byte-code interpretted, but I wouldn't even call JSP a scripting
> language.  Our persistent Java objects inherit from an XMLObject base class
> that uses introspection to turn any data object into XML in only a hundred
> lines of code.  Advanced OO-techniques like this would be hard to do in PHP.
>
> I've been very happy with the work done by Apache, and we use 5 different
> Apache open-source projects in our application.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Sun" <js9s@lycos.com>
> To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [seul-edu] Linux + Apache - Student Administration System
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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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