I’m about to endeavor on a private project of mine. As always is the case, I was wondering which technologies I should use. Basically, I’m trying to implement a web application with these pieces involved:
- user authentication;
- user profile management;
- collection of client questionnaire and statistical reports;
- ability to search through client profiles and responses to their individual questionnaire;
My initial reaction was to simply stick to the apache/mod_perl architecture. However, I may be working with people who are more knowledgeable about JSP/tomcat set up. Is there a way to strike a compromise (without hurting anyone’s feelings)?
From my earlier experience, developing anything in JSP/tomcat takes more time than it does when developing in apache/mod_perl. Also, JSP/tomcat runs slower than apache/mod_perl, unless of course I chose to purchase expensive third-party applications to aide this aspect. For example, there’s only a handful of server applications supporting JSP that make JSP pages efficient and in fact slightly outperform mod_perl/apache web sites. Unfortunately, they come at significant cost. For example, most basic package of
Resin server for JSP costs $3.5K US! This is far beyond my budget limitations ;-). Also, I’m a little bit weary about the
benchmarks that this company came up with. In the back of my mind I think the company is somewhat skewing their benchmark results to make their product look favourable. Also, he makes some loose remarks about Perl and apache implementations.
If you have any web sites that you know have done a good job comparing the two technologies, please feel comfortable to submit them here. I’ll appreciate any help I could get! ;-)
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