Table of Contents

Features

FastCGI: Persistent Applications for Your Web Server by Paul Heinlein

FastCGI allows Apache to run and manage persistent CGI-like scripts, overcoming CGI's worst shortcomings.

An Introduction to JDBC by Manu Konchady

Mr. Konchady presents some of the benefits of using Java over CGI as well as the basics of managing a departmental database with Java.

Perl Embedding by John Quillan

An overview of what is needed to embed your favorite Perl application and help avoid some obstacles along the way.

LJ Interviews Guido van Rossum by Andrew Kuchling

Mr. Kuchling talks to the creator of Python to find out about the past, present and future of this versatile programming language.

The Python HTMLgen Module by Michael Hamilton

Mr. Hamilton tells us how to use HTMLgen, a Python-class library, for generating HTML.

News & Articles

Xforms Marries Perl by Reza Naima

How to add a powerful graphical user interface to Perl scripts

The Quick Road to an Intranet Web Server by Russell C. Pavlicek

Apache and Linux make the task simple.

XML, the eXtensible Markup Language by Andrew Kuchling

XML has been attracting a lot of attention recently. This article provides a five-minute overview of XML and explains why it matters to you.

More Flexible Formatting with SGMLtools by Cees de Groot

A brief overview of the latest SGMLtools is presented by one of its developers.

Tcl/Tk: The Swiss Army Knife of Web Applications by Bill Schongar

Tcl/Tk offers many uses to the web programmer. Mr. Schongar describes a few of them.

Reviews

• Product Reviews
  QuickStart: Replication & Recovery v1.2 by Daniel Lazenby
  An overview and review of this replication and recovery product.
  

  Informix on Linux: First Impressions by Fred Butzen
  Notes on installing and configuring Informix's port to Linux.
  

  Book Reviews

  Structuring XML Documents by Terry Dawson
  

  Linux Kernel Internals, Second Edition by Karl Majer
  

Columns

Linux Apprentice

Beginner's Guide to JDK by Gordon Chamberlin
This article covers the use of the Java Development Kit on a Linux platform. It includes a general introduction to Java, installing the JDK 1.1.6, compiling Java support into the Linux kernel, writing a simple Java program and studying an example.

Take Command

init by Alessandro Rubini
init is the driving force that keeps our Linux box alive, and it is the one that can put it to death. This article is meant to summarize why init is so powerful and how you can instruct it to behave differently from its default behaviour. (Yes, init is powerful, but the superuser rules over init.)

Linux Means Business

Linux for Internet Business Applications by Uche Ogbuji
A look at how one company is moving ahead by using Linux to provide Internet services to its clients.

System Administration

High Availability Linux Web Servers by Aaron Gowatch
If a web server goes down, here's one way to save time and minimize traffic loss by configuring multiple hosts to serve the same IP address.

Linux Gazette

The Roxen Challenger HTTP Web Server by Michel Pelletier
A review of the easy-to-install web server written in Pike.

Departments

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor

Open Source's First Six Months by Eric S. Raymond

From the Publisher

Open Source Developer Day by Phil Hughes
A report on a series of panels held at the end of O'Reilly's Perl Conference.

Stop the Presses

Caldera Splits by Phil Hughes
The software company is now two subsidiaries: Caldera Thin Clients, Inc. and Caldera Systems, Inc.

New Products

Best of Technical Support

Strictly On-line

Website Automation Toolkit by Andrew Johnson

Serializing Web Application Requests by Colin Wilson

Mr. Wilson tells us how he improved web response time and kept users happy using the Generic Network Queueing System (GNQS).