note 27648 deleted from faq.languages by sobak

Note Submitter: mavi_br at someplace dot com ---- I've been working with PHP, JSP, Java and CFM for 2 years now. I can tell that for web development only, php is not nearly as good as cfm on speed, on ease to use and on interaction. On the other hand you just can't do anything very special with CF like opening a socket with the ease of php. I would say : use what you need for your application, cfm is truly the fastest, as it has a daemon running instead of a per request, plus the ability to cache queries that is awesome. php is fast but is a pain on some aspects and has loads of bugs. JSP have almost no bug at all, or at least i did not find any, but it is hard to debug. Good thing on JSP is that you can write real applications and have perfect interaction by using classes, plus it is much more of a serious language.The only problem is that you take at least twice times to make same program on JSP and it is not even close as well documented and easy to use as php.