[thelist] PHP to Java

[Charles]

> Contrary to popular belief, Java is much faster than Java...

Well thank goodness!   :O)

> ...Java has scalability built in to the language/API.

<ignorance>  I don't know what that means, and if other list members don't
mind I'd love to learn more.  </ignorance>

> Here's a interesting article about running PHP on top of Java
> to solve scalability problems:

I would personally not recommend targeting the Java runtime with PHP any
more than I'd recommend targeting the .NET runtime with Ruby
<http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/rubynet/>.

The problem is that if something goes wrong or just doesn't work as
expected, you're mostly on your own.

> Here's a interesting article about running PHP on top of Java
> to solve scalability problems:

The article that the entry is commenting on noted memcached
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached> as the solution, which is probably
the better solution for that.

-- Charles