Anyone able to recommend any web hosting companies running Linux/Solaris or other *nix variant able to offer FULL JSP support, JDBC, database interaction to either mySQL or PostgresQL for a reasonable month fee. If you are a web hosting company you may e-mail me direct at mattfreeman@onetel.net.uk otherwise post below.

I wish people would have warned me about PHP :). I've got to stage in PHP where I can paraphase (in close like syntax) just about anything I want to do within the constraints of PHP. However, even though PHP has an excellent array of extensions and features not present in ASP I seriously doubt it has a fast growing future. Interesting when browsing Borders (UK bookstore chain) today there was well over two hundred Java related books and only two PHP books. True OOP languages such as Java and Java Servlets will lead the way in the future. Ah well, just got to convert a few thousand line from PHP to Java, only weeks after converting from ASP (Vbscript).

PHP4 now supports OOP tooo :)


Java --> nothing can compare to Java. Its an amazing language. Though I know very little of it. And as far as the future us concerned, OOPs is the future, in which form, doesnt matter :)

I am aware that PHP4 does support OOP (e.g. classes), infact that what I've been working with them for that past weeks, however OOP has simply been tacted on to PHP, the core of PHP was never designed to be truely OOP. Hence use of OOP in PHP4 does slow down the execution of your code, it is much faster to not to use where you can, but then your code is not as re-usable or as logical. Similarly Perl is was never designed to be truely OOP. Phyton is apparently a very good OOP language, however I'd prefer to go with Java due to it's popularity, large user-base and enterprise use. C++, if you code it, and you do it efficently and quickly then at present it's faster than Java.

Well you could check with http://hosting.webpipe.net/ I know they offer JSP.

Speaking of books, Matt, here's an interesting comparison :

At my local bookshop (which happens to be my University bookshop) :

52 Java books at last count.
10 JSPs.
14 ASP books.
4 PHP.

Hmmmmm..........

For a previous thread with links to JSP+Linux hosts, see here:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=2173

Java in the form of Java Applets has no future but as Servlets and JSP it looks like it is going to have a very long future ahead of it.


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This certainly isn't the first time, is it Adam?

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