From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-08-14T05:07:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19651] Re: eRuby Application Server

Eli Green <eli.green@codedogs.ca> wrote:
: There's an *experimental* app server called Iowa that users of WebObjects will
: immediately feel comfortable with. I suggest that anybody interested in
: hacking on such a project check it out. It's a great deal more elegant than
: the ASP/JSP model, since it automates a great deal of the parameter-passing
: cycle of web servers.

That is excellent news.  I am now playing with it; hopefully Iowa shows 
itself to be an excellent tool and can demonstrate whether WebObjects
was[is] a bloated, obtuse nightmare because of Java overhead, horrid
design, or just that this OO model is inappropriate for DB-backed web
applications.  IOWA being GPLed and interpreted, I can play with the above
suppositions and find out.

Thanks, Avi!

: I've been busy hacking away on various projects that fit hand-in-hand with
: Iowa in my spare time (hah!). 
             ^^^^^^^^^^
"You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it
means."