Business logic layer - what to use?

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On 01/25/04 16:13, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> One well-accepted way of handling business logic is to use Java.  There 
> is a great deal of middleware architecture to aid in this, namely J2EE. 
> However, if you are simply interested in writing ground-up code, the 
> J2SE (Standard Edition) works great.  This is how all my middleware is 
> written, specifically for my web-apps, but GUI apps work great with this 
> approach as well (even if Java isn't the GUI client).
> 
> Keep us informed. 
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>> I've got a shot at a job to create a fairly sophisticated vertical app 
>> for a client. Backend will probably be several Postgresql databases. 
>> Client side will likely be a custom gui app written in C++ with 
>> wxWindows (mix of Linux & Windows clients).
>>
>> What I'm struggling with is what to program the "business logic" in?
>>
>> Like any transaction-oriented app, there will be lots of data 
>> validation and cross-checking before committing anything into the db. 
>> But writing this in something like C++ gives me the creeps.

If you do go the J2EE route, you'd better have really beefy hardware on 
the server side.  Java is a pig.  piggy!


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