I AM running Apache with PHP installed, and I am working on learning how to develop with PHP. However, my first foray into web app development was with ColdFusion. Additonally, the site I work for hosts under ColdFusion. I'll be the first to say that PHP isn't that difficult to learn, but if I hadn't been introduced to ColdFusion (arguably easier to learn than PHP from a noob's standpoint) and gotten some background in development I'd probably still be smashing my skull against a wall. At the end of the day it's about using the right instrument for the job- and now that I have two web scripting environments running on my dev box I can actually make the attempt to write an app/site using both as an exercise to keep my skills cross-platform.
This was my first time installing a J2EE server so I decided to just go with using JRun. However, according to the installation instructions you can set it up running under Tomcat. Haven't tried it in practice yet.
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I AM running Apache with PHP installed, and I am working on learning how to develop with PHP. However, my first foray into web app development was with ColdFusion. Additonally, the site I work for hosts under ColdFusion. I'll be the first to say that PHP isn't that difficult to learn, but if I hadn't been introduced to ColdFusion (arguably easier to learn than PHP from a noob's standpoint) and gotten some background in development I'd probably still be smashing my skull against a wall. At the end of the day it's about using the right instrument for the job- and now that I have two web scripting environments running on my dev box I can actually make the attempt to write an app/site using both as an exercise to keep my skills cross-platform.
This was my first time installing a J2EE server so I decided to just go with using JRun. However, according to the installation instructions you can set it up running under Tomcat. Haven't tried it in practice yet.