Comments on: PHP vs Java (Take 43) http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/05/25/php-vs-java-take-43/ Thoughts on PHP, eBay, and too many technical topics for my family's liking. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Adam Trachtenberg http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/05/25/php-vs-java-take-43/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Adam Trachtenberg Fri, 27 May 2005 21:43:40 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/?p=73#comment-44 Well, eBay is a cool application, and I think they use Java. :) But seriously, I think PHP has much more adoption in the open source developer community in terms of the applications that have been built and distributed -- OSCommerce, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, etc. There are Java versions of these types of applications, but they're more likely to be internal or commercial. And what the open source Java community has been building are frameworks instead of applications. Well, eBay is a cool application, and I think they use Java. :)

But seriously, I think PHP has much more adoption in the open source developer community in terms of the applications that have been built and distributed — OSCommerce, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, etc.

There are Java versions of these types of applications, but they’re more likely to be internal or commercial. And what the open source Java community has been building are frameworks instead of applications.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/05/25/php-vs-java-take-43/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Jeremy Fri, 27 May 2005 17:27:06 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/?p=73#comment-43 The article would be a little more accurate if it started with "It seems like most of the small, public, written-by-one-guy, hosted on a shared ISP, cool end-user web applications are written in PHP." instead of "It seems like most of the cool end-user web applications are written in PHP." PHP is great, and so is Java, but saying that Java programmers just write frameworks is like saying that skyscraper building crews just build scaffolding. The article would be a little more accurate if it started with “It seems like most of the small, public, written-by-one-guy, hosted on a shared ISP, cool end-user web applications are written in PHP.” instead of “It seems like most of the cool end-user web applications are written in PHP.”

PHP is great, and so is Java, but saying that Java programmers just write frameworks is like saying that skyscraper building crews just build scaffolding.

]]> By: Ivo Jansch http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/05/25/php-vs-java-take-43/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Ivo Jansch Thu, 26 May 2005 17:49:39 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/?p=73#comment-40 Who says PHP programmers don't write frameworks? (http://www.achievo.org/atk) ;-) Who says PHP programmers don’t write frameworks? (http://www.achievo.org/atk) ;-)

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