- From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:30:24 +0100 (MET)
- To: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <alex@virtual.office.com>
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org, fastcgi-developers@OpenMarket.com, Martijn de Vries <martijn@virtual.office.com>, bpm@techapp.com, harris@OpenMarket.com
S. Alexander Jacobson writes: > Various people have suggested alternative environments including > fastcgi-java as well as the javasoft jeeves servlets which I > forgot to mention in my original mail. > > I guess this brings up an intersesting point. There are actually a few > separate questions to ask? > 1. is there already an httpd-independent or standard in-process > server-side java environment? > 2. since there appears to be that there is no httpd-independent or > standard in-process server-side java environment, is there one we can > adapt to provide this function? > 3. if each existing model is too loyal (proprietary) to a particular httpd > implementation or too difficult to port to all the platforms (including nt > and macintosh os's and the netscape and iis webservers) then can we > define a standard interface that would > a. allow code sharing among the various server-side java developers > around the net analogous to the cgi/perl script sharing? > b. facilitate writin code which maps our new interface to the > proprietary java server apis in the way that database vendors > provide odbc drivers > > Is anyone interested in such a project? The only "standard" thing, as o today, is the servlet API, that Jigsaw will support in next release (it's done, needs a little more testing, but should be ready by next release). Now, wether this is standard or not is another issue, I don't know what vendor will support that API, I know a number of free Java servers will support it though. Anselm. BTW: I didn't had time to look into the fastcgi stuff, Iwould really like to have a FastCGI resource(that does fastcgi within Jigsaw, by opposition to the cgi fastcgi gateway that was mentioned earlier)
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