Like most things, there is more than one way to get there... ;^)
I tried the IBM tools, and they were OK, but we settled on NetBeans for our
IDE because it's a cool IDE and the support has been phenomenal. It also
didn't hurt that the Enterprise version is now free since they were bought
by Sun....
As for how to do DB connectivity I don't think you necessarily have to use
Perl at all, although it's a cool language. It depends a lot on who needs to
access the DB, where they need access and whether you always need or even
want a GUI to the DB. We're developing a Perl interface to PostgreSQL for
our backend web processing of orders, but I'll probably develop a web/native
interface to the DB so regular mortals can add items to the DB using a
friendly easy to use app to do so.
If you do C++ you'll do fine with either Java or Perl. The right tool for
the right job is the important thing, IMHO. I went the other way, learned C,
skipped C++ and went straight to Perl and finally Java. They finally made me
do OOP anyway... #8^D
Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
Ronin Coder/Bithead at Large
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'Don't crush that dwarf, hand
me the pliers!'
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Van Olmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 4:16 PM
Subject: Speaking about Java and linux
> Hi,
>
> has anyone tried out the Java development tools from IBM on Redhat:
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developer/linux/
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/download_linux.html
>
> I'm still evaluating what I should choose to build my first ever
e-commerce
> website. Should I go for Websphere or any other java solutions, or should
I
> choose a Perl way to do it... I know that i will still need some perl
> scripts for some part of the site, but i'm talking about communicating
with
> SQL database. I'm a pretty heavy c++ programmer which a small knowlegde of
> java (I never wrote a Perl script....)
>
> marc
>
>
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