Posted by Berislav Lopac on 08/25/05 11:42

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> What would be the point of that application level persistence in PHP5?
> Any app server (Weblogic, WebSphere, iPlanet, iAS) has application
> persistence.

Except PHP. That's the point of adding app-level persistence to PHP5. That
might not be useful everywhere, but ocassionaly it might.

> The purpose of PHP5 is not to replace Java or .Not, but
> to complement them.

Those are three different things.

- PHP is a Web application server with its own scripting language (also
called PHP).
- Java is a general purpose language with lots of libraries, frameworks and
applications for various purposes, including Web application servers.
- .NET is a general purpose development platform, with lots of libraries and
frameworks for various purposes, which supports a number of different
programming languages.

So they definitely can't replace each other. They can each be used on its
own for most purposes, or can be glued together if needs be.

Berislav

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