Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP and JSP comparison

AL Lewis wrote: > 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? At the moment, I'm the only one working on Java support. Any contributions welcome. It works well on Windows, and worked at one time on Unix, but at the moment I'm trying to accomodate changes to the base - both build process and internal structure changes. Example of the types of things I have to deal with - Java allows you to call out to 'C', but I don't think that any of the JDK designers expected you to do things like change the working directory on them. With respect to benchmarks: don't trust them. Benchmarks can be constructed to "prove" that PHP is faster than ASP - and the reverse. Database intensive web sites will spend most of the time in the database irrespective of the page language. Build a representative sample of what you are trying to accomplish, and benchmark it yourself. "G" wrote: > 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. It is a fairly recent phenomenon, but IDEs for JSPs and PHP exist. PHP is big, but modular. If you don't care about a topic, ignore it (in fact, don't configure it in). - Sam Ruby