Business logic layer - what to use?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Shawn L Johnston wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 04:39, James McDonald wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>If you do go the J2EE route, you'd better have really beefy hardware on
> >>>the server side.  Java is a pig.  piggy!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>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....
> >>
> >>My question is if it's so resource intensive why is it so popular is it
> >>just bandwagonism?
> >>
> >>
> Also, remember that Linux 2.6 is supposed to include a new threading
> model which will make Java run better on it.  For some time, the Winlose

You're most likely thinking of the NPTL (Native Posix Threading Library)
that Redhat recently took a lot of flac for including in their distros.
Yes, Java apps do run 10-20% faster on Linux boxes that have NPTL support,
but its still slow as all hell compared to C applications.  Greasing a
whale doesn't make it less of a whale.

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