[Fwd: Re: Erlang killer app?,]

[Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D.]

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Subject: Re: Erlang killer app?,
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:36:01 -0500
From: "Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D." <shrogers@REDACTED>
Reply-To: steve@REDACTED
Organization: S. H. Rogers & Associates
To: Mickael Remond <mickael.remond@REDACTED>
References: <1027402777.3d3cec199e610@REDACTED>

Mickael Remond wrote:
 >
 > I think we also need:
 > - A page templating system. I made preliminary tests of an Erlang Page
 > templating system based on ZPT (Zope) and I think it fits well to 
Erlang. It
 > seems to be a good choice.
 > - A way to described the logic of the web application itself. An MVC 
approach
 > might be a good choicefor this task. I still need to think about the 
way to do
 > it. In Erlang terms, we need a web application behaviour (like OTP 
behaviours).
 > - A way to be able to have several independant Web Application running
 > independantly. J2EE approach is good on this side. You can add a 
directory with
 > a config file describing the behaviour of your application and the 
service it
 > needs. This way we could for exemple run a new Erlang node to provide 
a mnesia
 > database to application that need serialisation mechanism.
 >
 > We would have here a good application server that can become a killer 
app here.
 >

Page templates are one of Zope's better features.

Perhaps a distributed weblog server supporting the "Blogger
API":http://plant.blogger.com/api/index.html would be a good "killer
app" for Erlang.  "Weblogs":http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs
are a rapidly growing phenomenon.  They could benefit from Erlang's
distributed, robust cpabilities.

Steve
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