Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to ns_java / ns_javablend

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Posted by defunct defunct on
On the subject of Java.....
Its always been my understanding/belief that Java and TCL are (and were designed) to be complimentary.

OACS's use of TCL as the scripting language for web pages is an inspired and highly appropriate choice, and I have no problem demonstrating the 'correctness(?)' of this to clients... but.....

Java is fast becoming de-facto standard, and a wealth of tools and systems built with it are also growing...

So it'd be nice, certainly, to know that its available in the armoury. I don't know what everyone else thinks, but I'd always thought that Jacl was really the right way to go... i.e. implement TCL in Java... you then have the best of both worlds...

At my previous company we did have a short look into the idea of porting AOLServer..... in the end it was decided this was too time consuming, risky and therefore not cost effective..

But I wondered.... has anyone else looked into this?