Business logic layer - what to use?

[Matthew Carpenter]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>>Shawn L Johnston wrote:
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>>>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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>>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
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>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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Obviously, someone doesn't know how to code it very well :)