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To: Alok Sinha who wrote (9080)4/16/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Michael Bukva  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Actually there are cases where Java already meets or exceeds the speed of native Perl/C/C++ apps, and in many other cases network latency and disk IO are vastly greater than processing time so that application "speed" is not the critical factor in determining response times (eg: web-based database retrieval).

Replacing server-side cgi-bin scripts with Java "Servelets" can vastly improve web server performance (Java is multithreaded by default: you can spin off multiple "tasks" to handle extra user connections much more efficiently than the traditional solution, which is to start an extra copy of the cgi-bin script for each user.)

There have been proprietary attempts to provide solutions to this problem, (NSAPI, ISAPI) but they lock you into a particular web server and usually (ISAPI) a particular platform, and don't scale nearly as well as simply interfacing to what the operating system vendor has already provided in terms of multithreading facilities.

Now think of any database as just another web server. Got it ? Oracle are embedding Java in their database server, next to their traditional server side scripting solution (PL/SQL).

Trust me on this: Java usage for all kinds of servers is ramping up bigtime, and its strategic significance is not well understood by the investment community. (With all due respect, if you can't touch feel or see it, it does make it hard to explain!)

Disclaimer: I work for Sun, but I don't own any stock. Yet.
The opinions expressed here may *not* reflect those of my employer.
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