Re: Why is java considered a language for "web" or "internet" programming?



Eric Sosman wrote:
BillJosephson wrote:

Howdy....

I've been learning a bit of java, because I've been led to believe it
is the language to use if you want to make web sites. So far, it just
seems like C or C++, more or less.

What is it about java that makes it good for people making web sites?

Two immediate reasons: portability and safety.

Just so you know, Perl and Php have much better portability and safety than Java. Of course that depends on what you define safety as.
Also for you information, I read a statistic a couple of weeks ago which stated that php was the largest by far, almost 50-60% or something, then there was java, perl, python and ruby on rails. Python and ruby were only a couple of percent and perl I think was about 18% or something. I couldn't find the actual article, but If someone wants it, I will dig harder for it.

But in any case I think the greatest thing about java for web development, or any enterprise development, is the extent of available libraries, frameworks, servers and tools. In addition to this there is a great deal of people and resources put into developing the entire java platform, which means constant progress in how to solve problems and how to do it the best way.

Another great thing is that java, compared to php, is that java is a reasonably complete and mature programming language, so programming gives you the same abilities and environment as though you were programming a system and not just a web page. Its a couple of huge steps away from the old web scripting environment.

tom
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