[Info-vax] Suggestions for implementation languages/utilities for new database project

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

urbancamo wrote 2012-01-31 12:08:
> I'd like to tap into the comp.os.vms collective wisdom...
>
> I'm about to start a new project, a hobbyist project, which will
> involve an application to provide a query system front end to a
> database of information. A fairly standard information query
> application. It will be implemented on a VMS system, either Alpha or
> Itanium based.
>
> I'd like recommendations of languages and databases that people have
> had good experience with in the past, from a VMS-hosted perspective.
> I'm a Java programmer by trade, so a traditional web-based front end
> with Java based business logic and either a MySQL or Oracle database
> would be first choice, but I'm interested in alternatives that
> developers have had good experience with.
>
> I'm more interested in a productive development environment, so for
> example any technologies that speed database integration with business
> logic. I'm happy to consider mature VMS-centric technologies if they
> provide a good level of productivity.
>
> Thanks, Mark.

Professional/hobby environment?
Expected traffic volume?
Number and complexity of web-pages?

For quick up-n-running, WASD server, Python scripting with MySQL
database backend.

http://wasd.vsm.com.au/
http://www.vmspython.org/
http://www.vmsmysql.org/

Jan-Erik.