Wolfgang Sommergut

Elliotte Rusty Harold, seines Zeichens bekannter Autor von Java- und XML-Büchern, wettert gegen die freie Servlet-Engine:

Given my known predilection for Java, you may be asking why I implemented this site on top of PHP instead of JSPs and servlets. The short answer is that Tomcat, and everything that sits on top of it, is an almost undocumented, uninstallable, unmaintainable mess. Note that I am not criticizing the servlet APIs or JSPs here. If I were actually confident that I could install Tomcat, integrate it with Apache, keep it running, and successfully deploy servlets and JSPs on top of it, I would be happy to write Java code instead of PHP. However, the fact is I’ve not been able to keep even the simplest, trivial little servlets running for the last two years, and I think Tomcat is largely responsible for that. Programmers and system administrators are users too.

Der gute Mann hat für seine neue Site The Cafes eine Art Weblog-Software selbst geschrieben, weil er ein Kommentarsystem nach seinem Geschmack haben wollte. Interessant daran scheint die automatische Registrierung, die keine separate Eingabe von Benutzerdaten erfordert.