[Asterisk-Users] Commercial release of SIP-based IVR system

[Jim Archer]

--On Saturday, March 15, 2003 12:39 PM -0600 Eric Wieling <eric at fnords.org> 
wrote:

> That said, I just don't have enough experience with running Java
> apps in a server enviroment and not enough experience dealing
> with Java on a server and so I won't use Java unless there's a
> VERY, VERY good reason (and there seldom is).

Actually, after 15 years of C, C++ and Java development I can say that for 
many, many server applications java is an ideal environment.  The 
Enterprise Java Bean system (EJB) is particularly good for deploying 
middleware systems where shared database access is required.  My company 
uses java to arbitrate access to a number if resources that are accessed 
via TCP and this works quite well.  Development under java really is 
quicker than under C/C++ for several reasons.

That said, I don't think I would choose java to build something like 
Asterisk.  Asterisk does have realtime or at least very near real time 
constraints.  And you can't do drivers in Asterisk.

> Yeah, it's tacky for this guy to have announced the product on
> the mailing lists, but do you really think many asterisk users
> will switch to it?

Even if no one will, its not an appropriate use of this list, IMHO.