Business logic layer - what to use?

[Matthew Carpenter]

Shawn L Johnston wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 04:39, James McDonald wrote:
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>>>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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>>We have a couple of Unix apps that were ported to windows using java and 
>>  RESOURCE intensive is a true statement when it comes to java....
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>>My question is if it's so resource intensive why is it so popular is it 
>>just bandwagonism?
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>No, I think it depends on what your doing. We use java a fair amount to
>do image analysis on satellite imagery and are pretty happy with it.
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That sounds pretty exciting :)  I'm pretty impressed with the whole 2D 
and 3D graphics libraries.