Notice: I don't want to get into a religious war about whether or not this is a good idea, I have been given a mandate to move the application from Perl to another technology, and I want to understand the issues.

We have an ASP (application service provider) model application written in ModPerl and backed by MySQL. It is a workflow/ticketing application. You can think of it as something like a bug tracking application. People log in and create tickets, which then get passed around, passed back, and modified. The tickets cause people to do work outside the system and simply change data and status on the ticket.

The directive is to move to Java or .NET. We cannot start from scratch. Is it possible to write new functionality in Java or .NET and have it work concurrently with the Perl code? Later we would replace the Perl parts with the new language. From the user's perspective I'd obviously like it to be seamless, but I'm willing to accept some bumps (e.g. a double login).

Can this be done? What are the issues we'd face? Has anyone done it? Where can I find someone who has?

Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

--Jason

In reply to Migrating Perl to Java or .NET by Jason Hollman

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