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Your triplestore and/or the client libraries you use to interface with it might well be Java too. While it's true that Apache, Java, and Tomcat are no longer the new hotness, they are solid and proven technologies. You would have to start breaking my fingers to convince me to ditch Solr. And as you say, nothing else (unless you want to go .NET) has that kind of XML support. I have hope for Saxon CE, but it's still in beta. My experience of Libraries is that they are mostly dead conservative when it comes to what they'll support. So I doubt Tomcat is going away any time soon. Hugh On May 8, 2012, at 10:17AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Thanks. I have been working on a system that allows editing of RDF in web > forms, creating linked data connections in the background, publishing to > eXist and Solr for dissemination, and will eventually integrate operation > with an RDF triplestore/SPARQL, all with Tomcat apps. I'm not sure it is > possible to create, manage, and deliver our content with node.js, but I was > told by the project manager that Apache, Java, and Tomcat were "showing > signs of age." I'm not so sure about this considering the prevalence of > Tomcat apps both in libraries and industry. I happen to be very fond of > Solr, and it seems very risky to start over in node.js, especially since I > can't be certain the end product will succeed. I prefer to err on the side > of stability. > > If anyone has other thoughts about the future of Tomcat applications in the > library, or more broadly cultural heritage informatics, feel free to jump > in. Our data is exclusively XML, so LAMP/Rails aren't really options. > > Ethan > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> It was recently suggested to me that a project I am working on may adopt >>> node.js for its architecture (well, be completely re-written for >> node.js). >>> I don't know anything about node.js, and have only heard of it in some >>> passing discussions on the list. I'd like to know if anyone on code4lib >>> has experience developing in this platform, and what their thoughts are >> on >>> it, positive or negative. >> >> I've only played a little bit, but my take is: you'll have more parts >> to build than with other systems. If you need persistent connections, >> it's gonna be neat; if you don't, it's probably not worth the bother. >> >> The Peepcode screencasts on Node: >> >> https://peepcode.com/screencasts/node >> >> are probably worth your time and money. >> >> -n >>