These are like the age-old never ending kind of topics. I am a PHP fan, and have come close to Java only because of my recent associations, and would add to this discussion saying that I've found that JSP is usually slower than PHP. PHP is interpreted, super-fast, much easier to code in and the underlying server requirement is cheap, and as such best. Java based servers with Tomcat or Glassfish, are more expensive, whilst you can find free php/mysql hosting all over the net. Coding in JSP would be easy for existing Java developers, though PHP is easy even for newbies. It is very open and hackish. It's for the C programmers, I'd say. If you look at framework support, JSP wins their hands down, since it has JSF, Struts, Spring MVC, jMaki AJAX, and what not, though there's cakePHP, etc for PHP too. JSP has said to be slow, but scalable. Sites like linkedIn are built around Java technology on their backend. Java is widespread in the enterprise. On another front, there are 1000's of free/open source php applications available out there which you can leverage, where JSP is seriously lacking.Just my 2 re.
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