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Stephen Adler wrote: > Guys, > > I'm planing on developing a web based service Do you mean a "web service" or do you mean a website offering a service? > which will require PHP or > some other type web front end with mysql db backend. The question I have > is whether I should dive into PHP or perhaps use python. Does anyone > have any experience using python? Or should I go all out and do a JBOSS > thing. (I'm not sure what JBOSS is, but I suppose its some kind of web > base middleware which allows you to write web content and interface with > a database back end.) I'm a big fan of both PHP and Java Servlets. I'm using both at work, though I host my servlets in Tomcat instead of JBOSS, because it's smaller and simpler, and I haven't needed the full J2EE enterprise beans thing yet. I like python, but I have a hatred for it in web environments because my only experience with it was in an environment with RHEL4 (the only version cleared to go in this USAF data center), with accompanying ancient version of mod_python and we had to compile our own MySQLdb module to get it to work. The whole thing was highly unreliable, and it was non-deterministic whether a change to the source code would change the website without deleting the compiled files and restarting Apache. I'm sure it's no longer like that, but you don't get over that kind of pain quickly. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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