Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP and JSP comparison

> Has anyone done/seen any PHP-JSP comparisons, even ASP for that matter? I > am really starting to like PHP and would like for my company to start using > it as our active page alternative, however, I need help. Also, I know that > milestones are close at hand for PHP 4 release dates, but are there any > gu-estimates and will the direct Java support be ready? I ask about PHP 4 > because for us to use it we need session and Java support. Lastly I know > that JSP has some performance issues, but has anyone done any benchmarking > with PHP 4? I think there's ample ammunition for a religious war :O) I've dinked with JSP's predecessors, and they seemed nice but used the CPU hard - Dynamo burned a steady 8% of the cycles just idling, regardless of which CPU. I have a client in the Bay Area whose systems architect has been involved with several java based rollouts, and doesn't ever want to touch it again. According to him, Java based sites take longer to build, must be much more formally designed up front (not necessarily a bad thing IMHO... ) and are harder to change later, which is important. Many big sites are completely retooling their site every three months to keep the users interested. Of course, this is 3rd hand and YMMV. For my part, it appears that the IDE support for Java is excellent, but I don't know if any IDEs support JSP well. IDE support for PHP is essentially just what's been built into the code lately - debugging and text coloring is about it that I can think of. I used to think that the Java class libraries were so big that the learning curve was high, but now PHP has gotten pretty big as well. G