Why is this bb written in cgi?

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posted 22 years ago

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Why is this bulletin board written in cgi while other parts of the site is in jsp? ( I suppose lots of people have asked this qn)
Just wondering how will java app measure up for high load, high volume database activities website such as this.
Or is this simply a cost related decision.. Off the shelf solution.
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posted 22 years ago

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Originally posted by Chu Tan:
Why is this bulletin board written in cgi while other parts of the site is in jsp? ( I suppose lots of people have asked this qn)

I guess it is because it was the best available software for the job.

Just wondering how will java app measure up for high load, high volume database activities website such as this.

Sorry, but I don't think this is a "high load, high volume database activities website". There are probably many orders of magnitude between JavaRanch and - say Google, in both page access and data volumne, for example...

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It was created when there was zero, none, null JSP discussion software available (I know cos I was looking around at the time). Availablity was the issue, not performance. JSP is a much newer technology than Perl/CGI.
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Are there any commercial/freeware/shareware bb available that use Servlet/JSP ?

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