..

Feel free to discuss it with someone that
cares (take it to c.l.j.advocacy).

Andrew T.

PHP : Script language

j2ee : development framework

so we cannot compare between those two things

You sound unsure of yourself. You want us to tell you if you want to
"compare between J2EE and php"? I have no idea, only you can tell us that.

They're worlds apart. They are not even exactly the same sort of thing,
as someone else pointed out.

J2EE is sitting behind a lot of big well known websites. It's just not
as obvious or well publicised, perhaps.

The IT industry is much more then a few CMSs or customizable forums.
http://java-source.net/open-source/web-frameworks

But as said before, can't compare apples with oranges

hi.

U know ,your approach to this question is legitimate...
J2ee is a java Server(enterprise edition ) ,
PHP is a SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING LANGUAGE , Moreover if we make a clear
cut comparison then JSP and PHP are both server side

I know u might be thinking of Embedding PHP in your Application .
Am i right ?

There are usually no such thing as "better" when it comes
to comparing different software. It depends on what you need.

PHP is much easier to learn than J2EE. PHP can run on
much smaller hardware. PHP is easy to get a web hotel for.

J2EE is better in structuring large projects, for scaling
horizontally and for transaction processing.

PHP is widely used in forums/portals and general
information oriented web sites. And for hobby
web programming.

J2EE is widely used in financial sector, e-business,
gaming and similar places.

J2EE do have equivalents of PHPNuke/PostNuke/Mambo/
Joomla/PHPBB/Typo3, but they are not nearly as known
or widely used. For examples see:
  - OpenCMS http://www.opencms.org/
  - Liferay http://www.liferay.com/

Arne

PHP is better for shared hosting (lots of customers / relatively
simple web-sites on the same server).
J2EE is better for complex applications, often one customer / a few
apps per server.

"Ershad" <ershad.rm@gmail.com> sez:

    Really two different things Ershad.

    PHP is a very popular scripting language for the web.
    J2EE, or more correctly these days "Java EE", is a server-side
    framework.

    PHP is great scripting language/tool for building web sites.  
    Many very popular CMS tools are built using PHP (e.g., Drupal, Joomla).
    Many forums on the web are based on PHP.  PHP is somewhat
    object-oriented with PHP 5.0.  Imho, it is way easier to put
    up web pages and small apps with PHP than Struts/JSF.  However, PHP
    is not the most secure tool.  A large-scale or enterprise project
    that used PHP and AJAX would have to be thoroughly reviewed for
    possible security issues (against the speed of development) of
    this combination.

    There's an "official" php site (www.php.net) to download the C-based
    module for Apache.  There's also a very cool pure-Java implementation of
    php from Scott/Steve over at Caucho (www.caucho.com) called Quercus.
    Loads of fun to play with; I've been trying to integrate db4o as
    a backend ODBMS instead of MySQL... hey Java is OO, right?  :)

    Jave EE (JEE) is a server-side framework that includes a collection of
    Java-based technologies: often-maligned EJBs, database access,
    transactions, database api, persistence abstraction, messaging,
    web UI, etc.  You don't have to use all the components of JEE
    to be considered a JEE app.  Some senior programmers skip the EJB part
    (see www.springframework.com and Rod Johnson).

    Basically PHP and Java EE are two different things.  But I wouldn't
    be surprised if Java EE adopted PHP in the near future especially
    with the recent emphasis on scripting languages (hmmm, didn't we
    do this 20 years ago?... but I digress).  Besides its hard
    to ignore the massive adoption of PHP for web designers/builders.

    Remember this programmer creed:  "Use the right tool for the job".

    Frank G.
    - NYJavaSIG Chair