yes, of course if you have legacy software. No arguments there. As for
regex, that's what ORO is for ;-)
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Mark Castillo
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Labanowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7
> Guys,
> You are getting religious about CGI... Religious is good, but I worry that
> it is a cult {:-)}. CGI was a good thing for last 6 years, and it is a
> still good thing sometimes. Note, we have tons of legacy perl software
> around, and believe me, I can sometimes do more in one line of perl, than
> in a page of Java. Yes, CGI is an "old ways", but it will be here for a
long
> time, since there is so much stuff written in it. I did not look carefully
> at regexp Java syntax, but can you have a
> s/\b(\d+\.?\d*)C\b/int($1 * 1.8 +32) . "F"/e
> substitution in Java?
>
> I personally think that web server without CGI is not a fully operational
> Web server. End of story...
>
> This is GREAT that CGI is available in Tomcat. You should avoid it, but
> sometimes, if you have a week to move from Apache to Tomcat, you just
> cannot do it, and you need a way to move from CGI to servlets/jsp in an
> organized way.
>
