Re: Java server technology question?

On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:58:14 -0700, Knute Johnson
<nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>My total exposure to web delivered Java is Applets.  What is the current 
>Java technology that you would use to create an interactive website that 
>requires a database to manage data on the server end?  I'm looking for 
>the simplest technology to do this.  The web server that I am familiar 
>with is Apache.  Does Apache have built-in Java capabilities?

The simplest is a pure Servlet with data files. You need almost no
extra knowledge than you already have.

Next most complex would be adding a real SQL database.  See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sql.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdbc.html

Sun JDK comes with a simple small one called Derby.

One's often used for small projects include MySQL, Derby, PostGreSQL.
For others see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sqlvendors.html

If you don't need the bullet proofness of transaction rollback,
recovery etc. you can use an "embedded" database, just a class you add
to your jar.  This simplifies deployment.  Very commonly your ISP will
have installed MySQL for you and a Servlet womb, most commonly TomCat.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/servletwomb.html

It gets tedious embedding reams of HTML inside Java strings, since
your outputs are complete HTML pages. So people have created scores of
rinky dink ways of embedding Java code in HTML that gets compiled into
the equivalent Java code dynmacially.  I find them all utterly
revolting.  You might have a look at some:
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/framework.html
Sun's basic one is called JSP. 
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jsp.html


-- 

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com