Re: Lightweight application??


iamfractal@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> hoopsbhoy67@xxxxxxx skrev:
>
> > I am soon to embark on the development of a "lightweight web
> > application" but I'm having trouble discovering what the term
> > "lightweight application" actually means. It seems to be very much a
> > buzzword than anything concrete.
> >
> > Some advice/articles on this would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I'd have thought that a heavyweight web application would be a
> J2EE/Servlet engine or an ASP engine (like Amazon.com), but a
> lightweght web application would be a few HTML files and CGI scripts.

I think CGI would be heavyweight as they spawn an OS shell to run with
every new request made to them.

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