Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

Nathan,

Just to complete the quote and put it in full context...

"The issue here is how to identify high, medium, and low, and I'm afraid there is no easy answer to that. It all depends on what the application is doing.

Hardware also has a large say in the proceedings. An application running on a Power 7 machine runs faster than the same application running on Power 5.

So, unless you have specific application knowledge that would lead you in one direction or another, I would let ease of maintenance and development be your guide."

The language relevance has more to do with an application distributed over multiple servers (which is what you usually have with "high") and, apparently, J2EE play a bit better in that world than PHP or RPG.

FWIW my own personal preferences are PHP and RPG - simply from the point of view of ease of maintenance.

Regards

Paul Tuohy
ComCon
www.comconadvisor.com www.systemideveloper.com




Nathan Andelin wrote:

Quoted from Get Thee to the Web, Part 3 by Paul Tuohy:

"Scalability relates to how many people will be accessing your application at the same time, and how well your application can handle the workload without detrimental response times. Usually, you would use Java for high usage, PHP for medium, and CGIDEV2 for below medium."

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg092210-story01.html


What makes people THINK that J2EE scales better than PHP, and PHP scales better than CGIDEV2? Is that thinking correct?

-Nathan