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We need an "unsubstantiated rant" tag...

and an "obnoxiously poor spelling and grammar" tag

FUD

Looks like the guy knows nothing about Java or PHP. A few people might actually seriously use Java for doing web development, but let's be honest, a LAMP stack is much better and easier to manage and deploy. Java's good for in-depth stuff, not web pages anyway.

Argh! Wait while I climb on my soapbox, here...

OK. Java "looses" (what is it loosing? the dogs of war?) for simple web development tasks. Fine. Its detractors like to overlook the fact that Java's complexity didn't arise by accident. Strong static typing is there for enforcing 1) good performance 2) strictness between object interfaces. The layer of abstraction between the application code and the database (iBatis, Hibernate, others) provides a method for code to treat database results from within the OO paradigm. The web.xml and other configuration are so developers have a standardized way to employ features that are used in many common webapps, and also so servers have a standardized way of hosting such stuff (heard of WSGI for Python?). The whole EJB fiasco was for enabling excellent scalability. The downside of all these standard, designed-by-committee pieces is programming complexity. But there are upsides!

For the love of Pete, people, stop using Java if you don't need it, and if you don't need it for what you're doing, stop spouting that nobody needs it. I seem to recall an extremely flexible & expressive, dynamically-typed language that ran on a speedy interpreter...name rhymed with swirl, I think, and the coding horrors inflicted by non-guru users kept coming back to bite them later. Swing, pendulum, swing.

Yeah. Okay. You do that, develop a serious Web app with it, and let us know how it goes.

I do. and get paid for it too.