Interesting article " An alternative to PHP and ASP"

[Andy C <ac...@computing.dundee.ac.uk>]

This came into an academic list I monitor.  You might find it 
interesting.

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Grant" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: An alternative to PHP and ASP


> Hello,
> 
> I have finished and put up the document concerning Dreamweaver UltraDev,
> PostgreSQL, Apache and Tomcat. It is RedHat Linux specific, but those in
> the know will be able to modify the important bits to make it work on
> other Unix and Unix like systems.
> 
> The drag and drop database programming with .jsp is in my view a serious
> alternative to .asp and .php:
> 
>     It is more portable - it will run on Windows NT/2000 (not that
>     todays news will encourage anyone to use that platform as a _secure_
>     web application delivery...) and all Unix platforms including Mac OS
>     X server.
> 
>     It is accesible to non programming designers as soon as the server
>     admin and database admin have set up the servers. Very shallow
>     learning curve! Design can be done on Mac or PC.
> 
> Feedback and improvements are accepted with pleasure.
> 
> http://www.animaproductions.com/ultra.html
> 
> Future updates include making the JDBC play nice with foreign languages
> and some SQL query goodies to improve on the stuff provided by
> Macromedia.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony Grant
>