-----Original Message----- From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje@telecommunity.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 05:07 To: Joe Grace; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Java Port

At 08:06 PM 11/2/99 -0800, Joe Grace wrote:

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Finally, on a coder side, there's been some discussion on this topic before. DC has reflected on the subject and pointed out some non-trivialities of porting to Java (mainly (?) C code). I

imagine it's

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non-trivial, but getting something running might be reasonable.

Actually, no, it isn't. The only part of Zope which might be 'reasonable' is the ZPublisher bit, and even it makes heavy use of reflection (see below). Here are just a few of the things I'm aware of:

<-- cut many good reasons why a JZope is hard -->

I thought the idea was pretty cool myself a while back, until I started thinking about what it would actually take. IMHO, it's too much work just to get one extra buzzword added to Zope's already extensive collection of them. :)

Ok but what about a Java servlet product. Leveging off existing servlet code seems to be of a reasonable amount of use even if you can't run your Zope server on your microwave :) Such a product would marshal the passed in parameters to some long running servlet server and do the same for the results. The same could be done for cgi scripts as well.