What's funny is that Sun didn't do this themselves - that would definitely have been positive for Java, as a dog-food exercise over the ivory-tower stuff. And might have earned them some much needed revenue too. But I guess that would've conflicted with them selling expensive hardware.
/Casper On Jan 7, 11:27 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope it's ultimately positive for Java. The stateless, single > threaded nature of PHP style scripting languages allows them to scale > so well. And this is a separate issue from the language itself. Java > hosting is expensive and painful because you have to commit memory and > CPU to each "server". Remember the M in JVM stands for machine. No > wonder other camps have such a low opinion of the JVM. > > Peter describes the benefits well. Highly scalable front-ends have to > have these narrowed (optimised) abilities. Perhaps there's room to > develop a symbiosis between the stateless front end and more > traditional back ends though.
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