Posted by David Oznot on 02/04/07 14:22

himilecyclist@yahoo.com wrote:
> My State government organization has written a PHP/MySQL application
> which has been in production for about 6 months and has been highly
> successful.
>

Complexity is perhaps more relevant the security.
Php (I haven't learned ruby/rails yet, but I hear good things)
is at its best for rapid client side development: for making pages
and forms exposed to the users. Get the O'Reilly php security book.
Java is better suited to complex data handling
and business logic processing on the server.

So one way to marry the two is to put an xmlrpc server in
front of the back-end data processing stuff, and then rapidly develop
user interface forms with php, that post to the xmlrpc server.

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