Answering about where you draw the line: usually nowhere. The technology
you'll use is decided upon your own skills/experience/existing assets and
setup you have on the server.
Key is interoperability. You can actually have a mixed PHP/Java solutions,
and write C++ extensions for PHP.
If it works, and the performance/features are sufficient for your task at
hand, then it works, there are no other conditions and no hidden obstacles.
All of these technologies scale with the proper architecture in place.
- the dividing line seems to be scale. (How big is the project, how much
traffic will it generate, how computationally expensive and or complex).
There are many situations that don't affect the scalability or
maintainability of a site, scripting is too useful a tool not to have
available. That being said, while more complex things can and are built
with
PHP, there's a point at which the advantages of Java overcome it's
disadvantages (taming tomcat, longer development times, etc...). The big
question is where do you draw the line?
Weldon
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