[Zope] Java Port

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----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:
> >
> >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
> >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.