Yes... It looks like it would. Thanks Jeff.
I will plan to reVisit the Morris County Library to find the textbook
that I found the java source code for the method to handle dynamic
arrays... and try to determine why ArrayList was not mentioned.
--Bill
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Powell
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:30 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] PHP vs Java
Wouldn't the ArrayList work?
It has add and get methods plus a toArray method.
Brutzman, Bill wrote:
Thanks to Kevin and Ross for responding.
I was surprised to learn that Java does not have built-in
functionality to support dynamic arrays although a little method can
be written to handle it.
The battle inside my head continues...
--B
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin King
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:21 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Using PHP
To start, I'll echo Ross. PHP is great for sessions and all manners
of web-type programming. Unlike Java - an otherwise excellent
language which tends to require some complex-ish web server setup -
PHP is much more lightweight and plugs into just about any web server
quickly and efficiently. The language is purportedly derived from
Perl but syntactically I find it closer to the original ANSI C++ with
just a touch of Java-isms to keep it friendly. It's easy (dare I say
"fun"?) to learn, easy to read, easy to deploy, and can be very
maintainable (though of course individual mileage in this department
varies per individual - as with all languages).
There are all sorts of frameworks and infrastructures available for
PHP but one doesn't have to use anything more than an editor to get
started.
The documentation is well written (I find it much more understandable
than most) and there are plenty of books available with code samples
to get one moving in the right direction. PHP can install with lots
of different modules from SQL connectors to crypto libraries, ZIP and
PDF creators and extractors, and a blindingly large array of other
features as well. And if that's not enough there's a whole boatload
of other user-contributed libraries available via PEAR.
Generally speaking, (well written) PHP code performs very well, it's a
reasonably mature language with a good object model (as of
PHP5) but
where it really shines is in passing data to and through a web server
and managing sessions. I've also used it for *nix shell scripting for
administration types of things and even had the pleasure of
writing a
NAGIOS plugin with it. Come to think of it, I've used it for all
sorts of ad-hoc data analysis on my Windows box as well when awk was
just a little too ... awkward? (pun intended, of course)
I've heard PHP is the #2 language in the world behind C++, but I don't
know definitively that's entirely reliable. That said, it
does seem
like it's gaining momentum because it's so flexible and pervasive.
The fact that it can be used beyond the web and on nearly every
platform imaginable without additional hardware or software, well,
that has to account for something.
The only downside to PHP in terms of U2 is that IBM has so far refused
to create any kind of native connector. The UO connector
"works" but
it requires something of a walk on the wild side to mitigate some
weirdness in the dynamic array extraction methods. Yeah, there's that
TechConnect article which describes rolling your own, but
even I'm not
THAT geeky.
Finally, FREE is always a good price, especially when you get so much
with PHP.
-K
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