Editor's note: Although this article may be controversial, I found it insightful
when I first saw it in June, and now I feel the need to repost it here.
Our "Practical Journey" website has provided a lot of introductions about application servers. I think that various
application servers that support jsp (and of course also support ejb and j2ee) will, perhaps already, become mainstream. Many people like php,
perhaps because it contains a spirit of freedom, or has many conveniences, etc.
Everything is evolving, so this is still just an opinion and commentary. But opinions like this are gradually increasing
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PHP It is an embedded scripting language with no future. The reasons are manifold.
First, PHP lacks scale support.
Similar embedded languages, one is ASP and the other is JSP. The former can get ActiveX support through Microsoft Windowsd's COM/
DCOM, and the latter can get support through SUN Java's Java Class and EJB
Two , lack of multi-layer structure support.
For large-load sites, there is only one solution: distributed computing. The database, application logic layer, and presentation logic layer are separated from each other, and the same layer can also be separated according to traffic to form a two-dimensional array. ASP can obtain this structural support through DCOM and Microsoft's Tra
nscation Server. JSP can obtain this structural support through EJB/CORBA and the Application Server of many manufacturers, but PHP does not have such conditions.
Third, PHP has extremely unreasonably implemented a confusing and inconsistent database interface support. For example, the interfaces for Oracle,
MySQL, and Sybase are different from each other. This makes people feel incredible, and it also hinders its application in electronic commerce - even PERL obtains an abstract database interface through DBI!
E-commerce is very popular in the United States now. This refers to the supporting environment for e-commerce. Microsoft's current energy is probably focused on W2K and the
big lawsuit, so its voice in this area is very small. I believe you have seen the advertisement of IBM's eBuisness in various media
. Its core is Web Sphere using JSP/Servlet. Another very famous e-commerce software
provider in the West is Intershop. Its original products Intershop1 2, 3, 4 occupy the main e-commerce software share
. They are all supported through CGI. But after October this year, it launched Enfinity, an e-commerce Application Server using JSP/Se