Re: java like a CGI

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<0d3dfcfa-514f-4a34-aac6-fe5db72933fd@googlegroups.com>
Daniel Pitts wrote:

Yoni wrote:

I have a java [sic] program that I want to run in my cgi-bin directory.


For God's sake, why?

My hosting plan does not support java [sic].


Switch hosting plans or use a different language than Java.

If I can compile my java [sic] class into binary code (embedding a jvm [sic])
I should be able to use that program like a cgi.
Any suggestion? :)


Don't.

I would like to avoid to translate that stuff in python or changing my hosting plan :-)


You want a lot of contradictory things.

Why don't you want to translate the code or change hosting plans?

Which is more work - banging together a Java program to use like it isn't Java,
or switching to a host that lets you use Java?

Over the long haul?

Really?

Running Java as a CGI isn't a great idea in the first place. Most "web"


Understatement.

based Java programs are called "webapps", and they use "servlets". A
servlet is basically a java [sic] program which acts as a web server directly,


Not exactly. It is a Java class that is invoked by the web server, itself a Java
program.

so the Java program doesn't need to "start up" every time a user request
comes in.


Step back and decide what you really want to accomplish. You don't want to
create a whole bunch of moreau hybrids whose components collide with
each other.

One assumes, given your question, that you don't expect to serve more than a
few dozen requests per minute.

--
Lew

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