Hi Joe, I don't have any good links for you and am not trying to start another "holy war", but one of the things I really like about the Tapestry 5 web framework is it makes Java web development more interactive and iterative like PHP, just with all the added goodness of Java (you can use Eclipse, debuggers, etc) and Java frameworks (Cayenne, Apache Commons, etc). T5 does live class reloading of pages, components, services, and mixins that it controls. This is a great timesaver. It doesn't auto-reload Cayenne classes, though, but once your schema/etc is pretty stable, you tend to spend most of your time in the web layer and it speeds things up pretty nicely there. Make a change in Eclipse, save the file (Java or TML -- T5's HTML template), and reload in your browser. Repeat until working.
mrg On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Joe Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > This question has come up again, and I thought that I would try to research > it but this appears to be another "holy war". I am looking for links to > formal (or just professional) studies done on PHP vs Java - based websites. > I am specifically trying to find out what the real differences are when using > an an advanced ORM (like Cayenne) with memory management and performance > optimization, vs well whatever the heck they use for PHP. > > My personal bias, I have done some programming in PHP and it it appears to be > pretty primitive to me. My perception is that it is something for high school > student because it is easy to run for very simple tasks. However, complex > advanced CMS would appear to be difficult and a performance challenge for > PHP, but then there is drupal. > > My research has lead me to "java totally sucks" or "php totally sucks" sorts > of comments vs a professional analysis. (The conversations lead you to the > feeling that you are eavesdropping on some 17 years olds at a mall.) > > Finally, I am not aware of any ORM libraries for PHP that would even come > close to Cayenne. > > Anyway, any link would be appreciated and any comments would be appreciated > as well. > > Thanks > Joe > > > >
