[H-GEN] Web development systems

[Martin Pool]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:23:29AM +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:

> I may very shortly be in a position where I have to choose a system to do
> web application development so I need to investigate my options.  This
> system will need to have good database integration.
> 
> Current candidates that I know of and a few random thoughts on them are as
> follows..
> 
> *	PHP/PHPLIB	I like this one, but a RAD tool would be nice.
> Someone using this really needs to know what they are doing (not necessarily
> a bad thing!)
> *	PERL		No....
> *	ColdFusion		I know nothing about this yet
> *	Enhydra		Have had a play with it, seems nice, need to look at
> the RAD tool from Plugged In (need to know java?)
> *	Zope		Seems nice enough, need to know Python to be able to
> do anything useful
> *	MS Visual Studio	*puke*  Nice development environment when
> it's not crashing every 15 minutes.  Only runs on MS platforms.

You might also like to try Coocoon, WebMacro, and other servlet-based
systems, some of which allow you to work without using Java cod as
such.  Follow links from java.apache.org.  My opinion is that
generrally PHP is good for small-medium sites and either Zope or
servlet systems for large applications.

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Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
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