[asterisk-users] Which Java FastAGI implementation has the most "market share"?

[Steve Prior]

Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 
> 	The real advantage in choosing an AGI (or CGI or ...) platform/language
> is *reusing* the existing code that already runs on that platform, with

Well of course you should pick whatever AGI implementation matches the 
rest of your environment best.

> minimal porting to the platform in that language. How much does a Java
> application, net/bean, or modern (1.4-6.x) class have to be revised to
> make it work with asterisk-java as FastAGI instead of, say, AGI, CGI,
> commandline, browser JVM, or other execution environment/UI?

I'm not totally sure you're asking the right question here. 
Asterisk-java in combination with Asterisk and in my case Lumenvox is 
just a user interface for whatever application I am developing.  In my 
case it's not even the only user interface I've created for my system 
(which happens to be in Home Automation which uses CORBA to connect the 
pieces together) - I've also got a web interface as well as other 
standalone front ends and even the light switches can be considered part 
of the UI (and therefore non reusable).  Asterisk-java provides you with 
an ordinary JRE environment where you might not be in direct control of 
main() (though you can be if you really want to), but that's similar to 
the other server environments you mentioned (browser JVM is a different 
animal).

So the real question isn't so much how a class needs to be revised for 
asterisk-java, it is does your back end system provide a robust API such 
that you can be dropped naked in the middle of a JRE woods and without 
anything more than some additions to the CLASSPATH be able to interact 
with your back end system.

Steve