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PHP vs Java/J2EE

So most of my web applications development experience this far has been with Java and the J2EE technologies. I know a great deal more about Java than I do PHP, but I’m just starting to delve into PHP and from what I’ve seen so far, it holds its own when compared with Java.

As far as being a platform to develop enterprise class applications in a professional, modular, scalable fashion, Java takes the cake all day in my opinion. It has countless frameworks, an enormous community, and a powerful, portable language behind it– the best language if I might say so myself: Java.

The biggest, and probably only, problem that I have with Java applications is the lack of affordable web hosting available. From what I’ve read, hosting Java web applications tends to be expensive because of the need to have a JVM running, opposed to just a shared web server or whatever. This is why I started looking into PHP.
At first glance, PHP was just a hacker-esque, outdated scripting language… and maybe it is all by itself. The power comes with it’s frameworks. I’ve started looking into cakePHP, a rapid-development PHP framework. So far, it looks really promising. I’ll try to get some tutorials posted up here once I get into some coding.

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