Hi,
quite some things were said about the how or why, mostly
on technical terms or money. Taking the viewpoint of a
salesperson (yuck!) I think three steps are required:
- Convince your customer that your technology (and
people) can do the job. Easily. Have done it before.
Many times. ;-)
For each of your points:
- Accept credit cards.
No prob, someone above pointed out perl examples.
- Manage user accounts.
No prob, we can interface with the OS user management
or implement our own.
- Serve information from databases.
DBI rulez (at least I never had probs getting what
I wanted from a database via DBI; let's you switch
databases if you want, just as JDBC). If I
remember correctly, btrott has deeper knowledge of
DBI, check his home node.
- Handle several XML interfaces to external systems.
Currently I am using XML::Parser and XML::XSLT with
_great_ success. Main problem may become
memory usage, but that
is inherent in the DOM specification, anyway, so
no different in Java.
- Point out at least one critical weakness in the
other approach. One might ask: how do I handle
many concurrent sessions without the need for a
very big (read: expensive) machine like IBM SP or
Sun E?k ?
- Make your offer (how much, how long).
Hope this helps ...
Andreas
