Dear Kuba:
can you tell me something about the servlet session? How to use it? Or could you give
me some resources concerning it?
Thank you very much!
ying
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Kuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: php3 vs. servlets
> 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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