UKNM: Web site Applications Tools

[Philip Barrett]

Hi, Richard.


I stumbled across a company called "intelligent environments" who specialise in connecting

legacy systems to the web. http://www.legacytoweb.com  (screen scraper blurb at

http://www.screensurfer.com/guide/g_top.html)


They've got standard interfaces for a variety of legacy protocols and a visual scripting

language to make it all easy to build. However, I was never utterly convinced by them.

Their system is very NT-centric and ultimately I just don't trust NT to run a web farm

24x7 the-end. But they do have a long long history and a reasonable client list...


The three tier marketplace is exploding. They're all theoretically competing on level

ground: the EJB spec (still fuzzy, I heard).  If you have a legacy relational database

which does speak ODBC you can map it into your wonderful 3-tier world using toplink from

http://www.objectpeople.com

other 3-tiers systems like ATG dynamo have their own proprietary version.


Any use?


--Phil Barrett--

Interaction Designer, Flow Interactive

e:

philflow-interactive [dot] com

- ----- Original Message -----

From: Richard Gregory <

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To: Chinwag submissions <

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Sent: 04 January 2000 17:16

Subject: UKNM: Web site Applications Tools



  > I am currently working on a rather pressing project that involves

  > integration with a horrific custom built legacy system.Rather than code

the

  > whole site from scratch I looking at some proprietary offerings e.g.

  > Vignette and Broadvision, that may save some time.

  >

  > I was wondering if the list had any experience/views on these packages or

  > any others (i.e. Web Objects)

  >

  > Cheers

  >

  >

  > Richard S Gregory

  > PoulterNet 



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