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On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:46, George Carless wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:38:27AM -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm working on a big web project and am not sure which language to use. 
> > When would one choose PHP over J2EE?
> 
> Without wishing to be rude, I would say that since you don't know the 
> answer to that question (implying that you don't know the relative 
> strengths of each), you should go with that which you know best.  Even 
> with PHP's (limited) OOP support, the thinking behind each is rather 
> different (although, as with most things, most tasks can be handled by 
> either).  But a question of which to use really comes down to a decision 
> on the relative merits of each platform.  J2EE tends to be considered more 
> scalable, and also generally shows better performance in many areas.  But 
> then Java has overheads that PHP doesn't, and is also arguably easier to 
> jump into than is J2EE.  But this again comes down to 'use what you know': 
> I would say that for a 'big web project' either platform would be fine, if 
> coded properly.  And coding something properly is easiest when you know 
> the platform well.
> 
> --George


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