For starters, you shouldn' try to compare "Perl CGIs" to "JSPs". What you have to remember is that JSP is just a a templating system for creating Java servlets easily. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to a perl templating system, something like Mason is probably comparable.

I write Java Servlets & JSPs at work, the "CGI.pm" of JSPs are the HttpRequest and HttpResponse classes (and instance of which is magically created for you) which have all of the methods you would expect. The Chief Architect at my company is no bone-head, he did a lot of performance analysis of both Weblogic proxied through Apache & mod_perl, assuming that people wrote "imperfect" JSPs & CGIs (ie: not optimal code) and determined that the performance of JSPs in Weblogic was pretty much the same as mod_perl. He choose to go ahead with Weblogic &JSPs because he thought it would be easier for people with very little programming experience to write JSPs then to write perl scripts. (NOTE: he didn't try any Perl templating systems.)

If everyone on your team has strong Java experience, you might as well stick with that. The meat of your work can be done in support classes that won't be any different from any other Java classes you've written, using JSPs to generate the HTML should be relatively trivial to pick up. Your whole team can probably learn the syntax of JSP tags faster then you can get the remaining guys of your team to learn Perl from scratch.

In reply to Re: CGI (Perl) vs JSP by hossman
in thread CGI (Perl) vs JSP by Nomis52

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