[Gllug] Newcomer

[Richard Turner]

> Can I suggest that there are better / easier / faster ways to create
> dynamic content than with Java. In fact, although this will doubtless
> be a controversial view, my experience generating websites with Java
> at my previous job was thoroughly negative. I couldn't believe how
> slow and bloated and difficult to use the environment was.
> 
> You could look into CGI scripting, first with Perl externally, then
> with mod_perl and a separate templating library like the template
> toolkit.
> 
> Or look at mod_caml http://www.merjis.com/developers/mod_caml/ [I
> declare an interest because I wrote it] which comes with a high
> quality templating library, and lets you write your scripts in a
> typesafe language (with Postgres database access, connection pooling,
> Apache API access, yada yada of course).

Or you could use PHP - it's easy to learn and very well documented.
Using PHP you could, if you wish, continue to program in an OOP manner
too and the Smarty template engine is pretty good.

Richard.
--
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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