> But, again, perl's biggest strength is in manipulating text. I think it would > be quite a stretch to consider an app server to be primarily a text > processor, so it doesn't really surprise me. If it's a DB app, and the server is mainly doing DBI, then it's not much of a stretch at all. Also, for the record, I don't think it's entirely correct any longer (if it ever was) to say that perl's biggest strength is in manipulating text. > [1] Back before I got hooked on perl, I worked with a guy who was a > big-time OO (something else that was grafted onto perl, while it was > a core piece of Java from the start) and Patterns zealot and hated > toolkits that didn't provide you with exactly one obviously correct way That's the story with many people who cling to Java. Java's a fine candidate for a web development language, but it's not the only one or even obviously the best one in any instance. Bottom line is, use the one that lets you get the work done. Andy