JSP vs. PHP
| December 15, 2004 @ 8:37 pm | Filed under Programming |
As I have taken the distributed systems course I have been learning JSPs, EJBs, etc.. I have also learned some PHP in my databases class as well as on my own. At the beginning of the class I wondered how EJBs were better than PHP and if it was really worth learning them. Well, now that I have finished the class (for the most part), and I found that they can be quite nice. I would like to understand them better than I feel I understand them now. I have also been told about Hibernate and I am hoping to get some books on Hibernate and xDoclet for Christmas. I also found that there are tools out there that help to build EJBs (specifically Middlegen).
Next semester I am taking Phil Windley’s 601R Middleware class. I am looking forward to learning about some of the topics he will be discussing. You can see the kinds of topics we will be going over at the course wiki. I was also informed tonight that I will be the TA for the course. I am looking forward to that because in the best when I have been a TA I found that I learned the information better when I had to help other students and needed to really figure out the material.
All in all, I have discovered time and time again that I love developing web applications and working with the Internet. I guess the best part is that I can see the fruits of my labor on any computer at any time as long as it is hooked up to the Internet. If anyone has some good ideas or any other good information on web applications or middleware, please leave a comment!