Re: Big picture regarding web programming possibilities

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 03/23/2010 07:03 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> I now have some questions. Although I am a long-time web programmer,
> I have not worked in enterprise - level projects, and I am
> unfamiliar with java and tomcat. I hope that the questions I ask can
> easily be answered and links to discussions would be sufficient.

If you haven't already, I recommend skimming these links:

http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/server/auto-servlet.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/server/Tomcat-setup.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/XML-tools.html (and sub-nodes)

These may need updating and details, but it should be start.

> 1)Reiterating that I know nothing about the tomcat server - is it
> possible to use kawa script to
>    a) access components of the tomcat server?
>    or
>    b) to modify the tomcat server, and then access said components?

This sounds awfully vague.  You know nothing about Tomcat, and then
you're asking about how you'd want to modify it?

> 2)Is it possible for me - using kawa - to build a custom server that
> would serve up java that could be used by any programming language
> to accomplish things?

Again, I don't know what you mean.

> Here's an example from another nice
> programming language: the developer of *newlisp* has put together a
> .jar file that listens on a port, accepts commands that (if
> recognized) serves up gui methods. So, newlisp, which has no gui
> functions, leverages java.

Could you give me a link?  I haven't found that on newlisp.org.

You might find this interesting:
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/gui/graphics.html

I started writing some adapters do you would use the same "gui
constructors" that could be implemented either using Swing or
using a web-browser, but I haven't had much time do much about
that for a while.
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