On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:38:50PM +0800, John Lim wrote: > Let me explain. I'm developing extranets with PHP and occasionally I get a > checklist of required features from a customer. Features such as: > > - clustering, > - management of server farms, > - transparent fail-over, > - load balancing > - application deployment without restarting server > - advanced queueing > - database connection pooling > > I believe that many of these features should probably not be part of the > language,
Most of these are features of the deployment model, not the language. That's part of the problem: Since PHP 3, development has (publicly) concentrated on the language and language features. The deployment model has changed slightly, adding a lot of SAPIs, but not fundamentally - SAPIs manage variables and state like they always did. Also, Zend added some very important things with their Cache, which has been duplicated partially outside Zend. I believe the things that you list above are very important, as important or even more important that the language level changed for PHP 5/ZE2. The issue is, little is being done into this direction at the moment, with SRM being the only project focussing on that. Someone has asked for a vision for PHP, and it might me that... > Does this mean that when i become more successful and get > larger clients with Enterprise requirements I have to abandon > PHP and switch to Java or MS.NET? I hope not. Unless "PHP" adresses this issue explicitly and publicly: Yes, you will have to switch. Sad. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG, Dr.-Hell-Straße, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 435 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
