Pros and Cons of JSP and PHP

First, sorry about the cross post, but I'm hoping for opinions from
both PHP and JSP/Tomcat folks...

Our developers have just come up with a last minute requirement for
JSP on a intranet rebuild. At the moment the servers are running
Apache with PHP, but no other scripting. The rebuild isn't going to
run on new servers, just the existing platform.

What are the chances of running into stability problems adding a new
instance of Tomcat and linking it to the Apache server, and are there
thoughts on how much extra resource we'll put on the server. Also is
there any difference in how much they take up when running? The
scripting isn't going to be major, mainly just interfacing witrh ldap
and the like.

The thing is, looking at what they actually need to do, I can see no
issues with implementing it in PHP, but the supplie they are working
with - or at least their man onm the project - favours JSP.

Would I be right (looking at relative numbers of threads) in thinking
that JSP development is pretty unusual and that most folk are using
PHP...

thanks, Jim C, Surrey CC UK
Jim Champ (remove no.uce in email address to mail)
Network Infrastructure, Surrey County Council
All Opinions are personal, not my employers.

I know many web developers who swear java is more enterprise quality and
provides better security compared to php.  PHP is definitely simpler to use
as its a scripting language which is why it is more common, but also why it
is seen as harder to secure.

You shouldn't have any issues with an instance of tomcat as long as its
properly setup and you have plenty of ram on the server.

If you do push them to php, then I recommend using Guenter's netware php
builds over the one novell is providing as his appear more stable and
provide more extensions.

just my quick thoughts.

Rodney 

>>> On October 6, 2006 at 4:27 am, in message
<6kpVg.7826$0h7.2983@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, Jim
Champ<jimc@no.ucme.surreycc.gov.uk> wrote:
> First, sorry about the cross post, but I'm hoping for opinions from
> both PHP and JSP/Tomcat folks...
> 
> Our developers have just come up with a last minute requirement for
> JSP on a intranet rebuild. At the moment the servers are running
> Apache with PHP, but no other scripting. The rebuild isn't going to
> run on new servers, just the existing platform.
> 
> What are the chances of running into stability problems adding a new
> instance of Tomcat and linking it to the Apache server, and are there
> thoughts on how much extra resource we'll put on the server. Also is
> there any difference in how much they take up when running? The
> scripting isn't going to be major, mainly just interfacing witrh ldap
> and the like.
> 
> The thing is, looking at what they actually need to do, I can see no
> issues with implementing it in PHP, but the supplie they are working
> with - or at least their man onm the project - favours JSP.
> 
> Would I be right (looking at relative numbers of threads) in thinking
> that JSP development is pretty unusual and that most folk are using
> PHP...
> 
> thanks, Jim C, Surrey CC UK
> Jim Champ (remove no.uce in email address to mail)
> Network Infrastructure, Surrey County Council