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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Joel Hughes wrote:

> 
> > Curious - have you had a look into Quercus? (For a completely different 
> > approach.) From the caucho mob.
> > 
> > jan
> 
> Very interesting...anyone big use it?
>
> You played with it? What would you say the benefits are?

You get a sensible security model. You get all the packaging and 
deployment benefits of the java world. You get all the distributed 
session and clustering benefits. It goes fast.

The downside is you're still running PHP; application-level injection 
and xss bugs are still ten a penny. That's just a reflection of the 
typical* PHP programmer's carelessness**.

Cheers,
jan

* for those who feel insulted: I obviously don't mean _you_. I'm 
referring to those _other_ PHP programmers.

** and anyway it's not really entirely their fault - the language design 
is largely to blame.

-- 
jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)117 3317661   http://ioctl.org/jan/
Goedel would be proud - I'm both inconsistent _and_ incomplete.