Re: PHP vs JSP

Not really a JSP/PHP issue, but you mention that there's another developer. Are you in a bidding war with this person? If you're vying for business, don't get into putting JSP down, not out of hand anyway. Simply state the benefits that PHP has to offer. Our machines may be weird, but we've found that PHP running against servlets (on enhydra) - PHP generally runs faster. This all depends on the JVM underneath of course, and I don't remember which ones we tested. JSP seems to run even slower, though we didn't do scientific testing. :) This doesn't mean JSP is bad, but that for equivalent performance, you may need more expensive hardware, which affects a project's bottom line. Assumption is that this would be a dedicated server - I don't know of too many hosting companies that offer JSP service (sure they exist someplace tho). Compare compilation time of JSP pages vs. the compilation time of PHP4 through the APC. There doesn't seem to be any time at all with APC, yet with JSP there is/was a noticeable compilation lag on the first execution of a page - I've been told there are faster compilers, but we were using "standard" stuff. (getting over my head here, but I've *seen* the development effects of servlets, and JSP gets compiled into servlets, so there's even an extra step there). Again, if you're bidding, you'll lose if you just say 'JSP sucks'. There was an zdnet article a few weeks ago - JSP/ASP/CF/PHP. PHP was the fastest, JSP the slowest. Good luck - contact me offlist if you want to discuss this further. Website4S@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if anyone knows of any links to information relating to PHP vs > JSP where PHP is my language of choice and another developer is recommending > JSP but I know nothing about JSP to help me convince the buyer that PHP is a > better choice. > > A question that was raised is that PHP cannot be integrated with C++ for > large functions etc. > > My response was that I haven`t found a function that PHP cannot handle > therefor integration was not a requirement > > Anyone else have any valid upside or downsides to the languages which could > help > > Thanks > Ade > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net