Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Will OpenACS make my life easier?

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Posted by Jun Yamog on
Hi Michael,

I can't say much about the Java development environment.  But I have done some sites with ASP.  I can say that aolserver + OpenACS is a lot better for medium to large sites.  ASP is just good for tiny sites or MS shop clients.  Also among all web dev enviro I have experienced: mod_perl, aolserver and IIS.  I find aolserver to be both superior and easiest to use in DB back end sites.  Especially the db API of OpenACS.  I can't say much for plain aolserver since I started straight away to OpenACS/ACS.

So if OpenACS will make your live easier, my personal experience is that yes it did make my life easier.  Also once you get a hang of OpenACS-4 higher learning curve but more productive in the long run.

I am interested to look at Java environment though.  Although not as replacement but as a complementary platform to OpenACS.  I think Tcl and Java should be good partners.  ns_javablend should be nice, hint hint hint.  I hope DanW finds more time again =)