Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Scriptiing The Enterprise With Java And PHP

Posted by timothy on from the dual-nature dept.

jontr writes "There are many benefits of using PHP together with Java. In an article about JSR 223, Dejan Bosanac looks at origin of each language and describes future benefits for PHP and Java developers."

1 of 80 comments (clear)

  1. Re:JSP/PHP Compare and Contrast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong!

    The truth is this:

    Business Logic
    Java - Good
    PHP - Bad

    Presentation Layer
    Java - Even better
    PHP - Good

    I used to code in PHP all the time and loved it. But then I learned JSP and realized PHP is a waste of time...after I discovered JSP's tag libraries (both official and open-source ones), amazing amount of templating options, not to mention frameworks like Struts.

    The guy who thinks PHP is good for the presentation layer simply hasn't really used anything else...he probably thinks Visual basic is great too.

    PHP is cool, but it has so many missing features it's not even funny...and yes, it's SLOW. PHP functions that are built-in are fast (of course...they're written in C/C++), but if you write any of your own complex business logic it falls apart peformance-wise.

    I had to write some XML processing in PHP and used the PHP XPath class from sf.net (since my ISP did not enable the built-in XML extensions). In most cases my pages timed out, PHP was not able to complete processing the XML file within 30 seconds (!). Java's JDOM did the same in 3-4 seconds.

    but, back to JSP...they're great and make PHP look like a toy. Those who think otherwise have probably never written a real site in JSP. I've written them in both languages and I'm never coming back to PHP again...it's like going back from the full power of Unix to the clunky user-friendliness of Windows 3.11.