> I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's > elegance and power for years. I am a manager in dev shop > and the classic argument arises when CF comes up: can CF > perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?
Yes, yes, yes, it can perform "on par" with all of the above. Whatever that means. All of them are more than adequate for the vast majority of web applications, although PHP seems to me to be a bit limited with regard to external APIs, compared to J2EE and .NET. Then again, I'm no PHP expert. > Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study > of some sort that lays it all out? My guess is that it will > be slower than Jsp since its in effect a layer on top of > java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm guessing its closer to > Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong here). JSP and CFM files are treated almost identically - they're both compiled to Java classes that conform to the Servlet API. So there's no difference in that regard. CFMX, due to its typeless variables, is less efficient with regard to mathematical operations, I imagine, but that doesn't make much of a difference in most applications. If it does make a difference in your application, you'd probably be just as well served by writing Java classes to handle those operations, and invoking them from CF, as by using JSP instead of CFMX. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
