Hour 12. Pros and Cons of Alternate Technologies

The real goal of this book is not to just teach you how to write CGI programs, but how to build Web applications. CGI programming is just one means to that end. However, there are plenty of other platforms available upon which you can build Web applications. Most of them offer some distinct advantages over CGI programming, and also generally have some weaknesses when compared with CGI. In this hour, I’m going to provide a broad survey of some of the more popular Web application platforms that you can use.

In this hour you will learn

  • Why CGI alternatives developed

  • Types of CGI alternatives

  • J2EE

  • PHP

  • Active Server Pages

  • Allaire ColdFusion

  • Apache mod_perl and FastCGI

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