Hi all. I was just doing some rudimentary research on what would be the best solution to implement server-side operations of our webapp. The "servlet" and "PHP" seem two widely used solutions.
However, there is one important thing that struck me. Looking at http://www.tutorialspoint.com/servlets/servlets-life-cycle.htm, it states that every new client-request to a servlet, spawns a new thread. On the other hand, looking at http://php.net/manual/en/internals2.structure.lifecycle.php, it states that the Apache module MIGHT map different requests to a single process (with the CGI model DEFINITELY using the one-process-per-request implementation). Looking at the above, it seems that using Apache Tomcat to host a servlet, is better than running a PHP module in Apache (as far as resource-requirements are concerned at the server). Is my understanding correct? I will be grateful to any clearances on my doubts :) Regards, Ajay
