Interesting article from Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans on how the Java world is leveraging dynamic languages such as Ruby and PHP in order to remain relevant in the web application world. The obvious question is, though, whether using JRuby has enough advantages over using Ruby or PHP in a plain Linux environment without a JVM.
Today Sun is investing in JRuby Ruby and Jython Python support for its Java EE solution; the IBM Websphere group has realized the ineffectiveness of the Java EE platform for running modern Web workloads and has invested heavily in Project Zero which aims to make big blue a Web 2.0 player and initially delivers support for Groovy and PHP; BEA has also had some incubation projects going but with the upcoming sale to Oracle it is unclear whether any of those efforts will materialize.
Andi on Web & IT: Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors?
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I wouldn’t say a jump from php4 to php5 is that nice!
Redhat updates are pretty painless thankfully. We haven’t updated our apache yet, so not sure how that will go – with V2.4 apache has graceful stop that is useful for us.