[java] Java Servlets vs. PHP

Java servlets generally have been IDE support. Of course, they all pretty much similar (i.e. ASP vs. JSP vs. PHP - mind you ASP.NET is very different to those three, but that''s another story all together )

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Hi,

The basic difference is that with PHP you usually only aim at creating HTML - so you embed some PHP code into a HTML page (an alternative to PHP in java are the JAVA server pages - JSP).

The strength of PHP (applies also to JSP) lay in the fast creation times for a simple application.

On the other hand servlets can be the heart of any request-response system (static web pages are a HTTP based request-response system, where the web server just server those static web pages upon request).
You can do almost anything (that''s possible in JAVA) upon reques, for example communicating with other programs/devices over any protocol you want (RMI, CORBA, etc.). Servlets are also much more scallable than PHP.

My pick would be PHP if you''re going to create a simple guestbook, but would recommend servlets if you have to implement a company''s information server.

Also you won''t find many (if any) free application servers (to run you servlets on). In fact I''ve never heard about anything similar.

P.S.: The servlet engine tends to use quite loads of memory, so don''t try to run it under let''s say 512MB of memory or you can run into trouble.

hope that''s enough ...

Petr Stedry

Apache Tomcat is a free application server. There''s also Jetty, which I believe is the default servlet container for JBoss.

-pirate_dau

First off, when we talk about Java on a web server, we''re talking about more than just servlets. You''ve got servlets, filters, JSPs, tag libraries, etc. All these tools and the power of a full OO language can make handling complicated problems a lot easier.

On the other end, PHP is dead simple. Writing a page to display a database query takes only a few minutes and is easy to understand and deploy. I seriously doubt any raw performance difference would be signifigant given the overhead of database connectivity.

I think the big question is going to be how much actual logic is required in your app. Are there places you say things like: "User A sees this data, but User B sees this other data" or "User A can only do this after these conditions are met." Java will let you solve these problems in a much more natural and maintainable way than PHP, but it will add a bit of development overhead to a simple database script.

Thanks for clearing my mind a bit

Well, I guess PHP will be enough for the time being. Im keeping the Java Servlet Programming Bible I found for 10 bucks though, just in case Ill need it later..

Hi!

A lot of internet service providers support php, but its hard to find a provider that supports java.

McMc