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

[Matthew Rubenstein]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 04:46 -0700,
asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> 
> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:35:46 -0500
> From: Steve Prior <sprior at geekster.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Which Java FastAGI implementation has
>         the most        "market share"?
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>         <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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> Kate Kretz wrote:
> > Steve, keep me in touch please ?
> > We are also looking for moving all our activities to java platform.
> > 
> > Let me know if You'll find/test something like asterisk2billing
> written 
> > in java ?
> 
> I haven't received any feedback at all on the relative use of the java
> options, but I'm pretty happy with the way a little project turned
> out 
> in asterisk-java.
> 
> My project was to see how well asterisk-java would work in
> combination 
> with Lumenvox to create a speech enabled AGI, so just for kicks I've 
> ported their Pizza ordering demo to Java using it.  In the process
> I've 
> been working with Lumenvox to fix the couple of problems which turned
> up 
> as a result of this experiment, and use an asterisk-java code change 
> which is available in their latest svn.
> 
> Sometime soon my code will be made available most likely through the 
> Lumenvox site so others can use it as a starting point.
> 
> Overall I'll say that I really like using Java to control such a dial 
> plan.  In this particular case the output is a simple pizza order
> which 
> I've modeled as a plain old Java object (POJO), so once the dial plan 
> has built up the object it can simply be passed to whatever back end 
> (possibly J2EE) code which processes the transaction without regard
> for 
> the user interface that created it.  Sounds very maintainable to me.
> I 
> did the development/test right in the Eclipse IDE and could use the 
> debugger when necessary - I've got to believe that's better than
> trying 
> to trace through a regular dial plan.
> 
> I also really like the fact that aside from sound files and just a 
> couple of lines of dial plan code to call the Java, all the actual
> Java 
> code is running in a different server box so I'm keeping the load
> down 
> on my Asterisk box and have flexibility in where I deploy things.

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


> Steve
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kate
> 
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein