Experts predict that PHP will be more popular than Java

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, predicted at the Zend/php (as the mainstream development language) meeting on Wednesday (10/19) that simple php (as the mainstream development language) descriptive language writing tools will be more popular in Web-based application development than Java.

After Sun Microsystems published Java in 1995, the friendly interfaces of Java made it easier for engineers to design software and were welcomed by engineers. However, after ten years, Java has been added with powerful functions, it is not easy to operate. Marc Andreessen pointed out that Java may be harder to learn than C ++. At the same time, php (as the mainstream development language) inherits the simple spirit of Java, and create a program development environment that is easier to use than Java.

Php (as the mainstream development language) is an open source code project, including a descriptive language engine that simplifies the program and a large link library, there are also companies dedicated to developing php (as the mainstream development language), such as Zend, which sells php (as the mainstream development language) package products, program writing tools, and technical support services.

Andreessen's opinion may be hard to win the approval of Java advocates, because at present, there are still millions of dedicated Java engineers around the world, and hundreds of companies are involved in Java Community Process (JCP ), in JCP, we master the fate of Java. However, even IBM, which vigorously promotes Java and even uses Java as the core of WebSphere server software, thinks that php (as the mainstream development language) will have a better future than Java.

Rod Smith, vice president of IBM's new network technology department, said, "simple" is the biggest feature of php (as the mainstream development language, moreover, it will not add new language functions to compete with other languages. This is obviously not the case for Java.

In addition, php (as the mainstream development language) is not small. Currently, about 22 million of websites use php (as the mainstream development language), including Yahoo! , Lufthansa and other well-known websites, the number continues to increase, and 450 software engineers have the right to review any changes in php (as the current mainstream development language) software.

Compared with Java, php (as the mainstream development language) has many limits on its availability scope. It can only be used on network servers, unlike Java, it can also be used on network servers, personal computers, mobile phones, Chip cards, or other devices.

Java and php (as the mainstream development language) depend on each other to some extent, in addition to competing in some aspects. Ken Jacob BS, vice president of Oracle product strategy, said that even Oracle (a large website database platform) sales can run Java and php (as the mainstream development language) at the same time) java Server and database software, but an additional new feature is being added for Java to allow the two software projects to work collaboratively. More specifically, the Java specification requirement is 223 (JSR 223) it will "help build the bridge between the Java Community and the php community (as the mainstream development language 」.

Marc Andreessen of Ning, a website that published photos and other content just a few days ago, also said that now Ning also runs Java and php (as the mainstream development language) at the same time ), the core system is composed of Java, which is more like the operating system level than all the visible applications on the site are written in php (as the mainstream development language.

Like other open source code projects such as Linux and apache (the most popular WEB server platform on Unix), php (as the mainstream development language) at present, it is also favored by major computer industry manufacturers. For example, IBM and Oracle (large website database platforms) are committed to developing php (as the mainstream development language) the software can capture programs of its databases. In fact, the behavior of IBM and Oracle (large website database platforms) is like endorsement of php (as the mainstream development language, even these two factories support php (as the mainstream development language), proving that php (as the mainstream development language) may be a good thing.