Scutaru Ionut wrote:
>
> Can anybody tell any existing advantages of servlets vs. php ? Or
> otherwise..
IMHO servlets have these advantages over PHP:
1) Java is much more better programming language than PHP
- strict vriable type control vs. nondeclared variables
- more object oriented
- Exceptions, easier to debug
2) you have support of all Java standard features
- OS and platform independence, binary compatibility
- JDBC connection to any database
- serialization
- threads
3) Servlets have sessions, so you can track one particular
user and you can save his data in his session on the server,
it means the HIDDEN tags are no more necessary.
4) Servlets have init() phase where you can prepare repeatedly
used resources. In PHP you have to build everything again and again
for every request.
5) Servlets (Java) have unparaleled internationalization
features, like character encodings translations, date formats,
number formats, variable localized texts
I have seen PHP 3.0.12 as the latest version, so it may change,
I have heard about something like "PHPlib" which enables sessions,
but even PHP with session is not as good as Servlets.
Martin
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