From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T08:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Server Programming

Hi Andy,

What's the server part of this? I understand processing zip files, 
parsing text/binary, executing SQL, all of that, but I think you've 
been a little vague as to how all these actions fit into the overall 
function of the server in your company. Is this a web server, then I 
take it? Or some other sort of server?

At any rate, everything you've said so far can be handled fine in Ruby, 
and you'll probably find it a lot more fun to write than in Java. If 
you have other specific concerns you should just bring them up and we 
can address them.

Francis


On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Andy Stone wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The company I work for currently utilizes JAVA/JSP, ORACLE 9i,
> Apache,Tomcat setup running on Solaris.  We have plans to migrate to
> PostgreSQL and Linux.  Currently I have an issue with a server written
> in JAVA that hangs about once a week (don't know exactly why yet -
> hence the vague term) and we recently had it create a defunct port
> while trying to shut down.  I did not write this server, but am the
> only one left to maintain this code.
>
> Now you know why I am here.  I am looking into Ruby as an alternative
> to this JAVA Server. The core functionality needed would be processing
> zip files, parsing text/binary files and executing sql statements.
>
> At this stage, how does Ruby compare to Java in terms of server
> programming?  I have liked everything I've read about Ruby to date,
> but have seen very little in reference to server programming, but then
> again, I'm just beginning.
>
> Please excuse the vagueness, I'm very undecided what to do right now,
> rewrite the JAVA Server in another language or rewrite it with JAVA,
> but correctly.  The main reason for the other language consideration
> is the text and binary file processing.  I'm was thinking Ruby might
> handle this aspect better than JAVA.
>
> thanks,
> andy
>