Glenn wrote...

>Does anyone have thoughts on Jakarta/Tomcat vs. Apache JServ vs. Enhydra?

Well, if anybody wants to try JServ vs Tomcat vs Enhydra on MPE/iX...
 http://www.editcorp.com/personal/lars_appel/index.html
has session snippets that might help with installation and setup.

(sorry for plugging the above URL again ;-)

I found the Servlet API handy and easy to use. JServ seemed somewhat
more "lightweight" than Tomcat or Enhydra. JSP and Enhydra's flavours
(one similar to precompiled JSP, the other more XML oriented, and then
there is the upcoming EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) stuff) seem to add
complexity (from the learning curve viewpoint), but this is probably
only a matter of prior knowledge. The additional infrastructure does
seem to make web application programming more convenient, though.

Disclaimer: I have only written very small examples with JSP or Enhydra.

Overall, my impression is that all those web technologies contribute
to an inflation of technologies, standards, APIs and such. Somehow it
seems to me that all this might make nice "interoperability glue", but
I would still want the hard work to be done by proven legacy/native
code (like COBOL or Transact) working on TurboIMAGE data... However,
this is just a "gut feeling", not a result of scientific research.

Lars.