----- Original Message ---- >>From: Peter Crowther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Tomcat and JSP is a perfectly good model for web applications. However, >>if the Java community and the Tomcat developers don't innovate and other >>communities do (for example the PHP community and Microsoft), people >>deploying new applications will switch away from Tomcat and JSP to >>systems that are cheaper, faster to develop, have lower hosting/running >>costs or innovations like per-webapp memory and CPU throttling. >>The issue is not that Tomcat is bad in absolute terms, it's simply that >>other communities are out-innovating it so it's becoming a (perceived) >>poorer *relative* choice. >> - Peter I'm not trying to agree or disagree, but sincerely want to know what systems are 1) cheaper 2) faster to develop and what features do they have that make them so. I don't have knowledge of PHP, but I think Java, JSP/JSTL combined with XML and XSLT/XPath are versatile in comparison to other languages, and these languages are constantly evolving - faster than I can memorize them ;-( I've read in a few books that Java5 has evolved considerably from its previous versions. There's a nice "before" and "after" code snippets that show what the changes are: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se15/ I've been exposed to some other languages like ColdFusion, Pega, (Old ASP and Old VB), Javascript but don't find them as versatile as Java but this was a while ago, things could have changed by now. I find learning Java is tough, still struggling with it, but I want to focus on one language and learn it properly than switching between languages. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
