Sorry about the beyond.com info. That is not a java site. The following are some prominent sites that uses java:
www.become.com (especially this article about their using java: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/become/) www.nextag.com Cheers, Jian On 4/12/06, jian chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI, Dominik, > > I have written a java based application for the real estate industry using > Velocity, and people just love it. > > The nice thing about Java is that, it is a strongly typed language and > compiled, so, many errors could be caught in the compilation phase. Plus, I > like the java design much better. > > To be frank, PHP is just a hack, it is not a real programming language. > Yahoo bought the PHP developer, but what I heard from the yahoo people > themselves, is pretty much negative comments on using PHP. > > PHP is a dirty-quick solution, but to be really scalable, you need to use > a true programming language. > > There are lot of sites that uses java, for example, www.indeed.com, > www.beyond.com, just give you an example. Those sites are big, high volume > sites. I heard Altavisa uses WebMacro, which is the predecessor of Velocity > as well. > > I am always ambitous enough to build a google type of search site using > java... > > Jian > Lead Developer > Seattle Lighting > > > On 4/12/06, Dominik Bruhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hy Will, > > thanks to your response. My question was not only concerning Velocity > > but also > > about Java in General in Comparison to PHP. I hope that there are some > > Developers who have user Java and Velocity in realy huge sites. > > > > Thanks > > Dominik > > > > > > > > > > Am Thursday 13 April 2006 01:33 schrieb Will Glass-Husain: > > > Hi Dominik, > > > > > > Wow, that's a busy site. > > > > > > The short answer is that writing a high performance application is > > > mostly about architecture and only partially about language. If you > > > read the pages and pages of comments on that famous post, the > > > intelligent comments mostly boil down to that response. Caching is > > > critical, (for both database queries and page generation), as is good > > > database design. > > > > > > Velocity is unlikely to be a significant part of your bottleneck as > > > performance with template caching turned on is quite fast. > > > > > > WILL > > > > > > On 4/12/06, Dominik Bruhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hy, > > > > I currently got a online-community running on a > > > > PHP-Bulletin-Board-Software. I didn't write the software myself but > > I > > > > modified it over the time so the code grew and became quite > > unreadable, > > > > hard to understand and also slow. > > > > > > > > Some data for the site: > > > > 300Users online at the same time > > > > 30661 visitors per day > > > > 10GB Traffic per day > > > > > > > > The site is currently running on two servers, one for the dynamic > > > > PHP-Scripts and one for the Database (MySQL) and the static content. > > > > > > > > > > I was thinking about a complete rewrite for a long time and now I > > started > > > > to plan it more detailed. As I have used Velocity and Java for > > another > > > > (but quite small) project this was what first came into my mind. I > > also > > > > hoped for some speed increases from a Java-Application due to the > > fact > > > > that is possible to cache the Data-Base Data and save Queries to the > > DB. > > > > I'm also thinking about the time when there might be more than one > > server > > > > needed for the site (due to increasing visitors). > > > > My PHP and Java knowledeges are about equal, but I have never done > > such a > > > > big project in Java (neither in PHP) and so i'm searching for help. > > > > > > > > On my search through the internet I found a webpage where they told > > that > > > > friendster (really big site) switched from java to PHP due to > > > > performance. This made me think about my decision. > > > > > > http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/22_Friendster_goes_PHP.html > > > > > > > > I fear programming the whole Website in Java and then recognizing > > that > > > > its much to slow for this purpose. Thats why I write to this > > mailinglist. > > > > Are there any people who made a similar step from php to java and > > can > > > > tell about performance gains or looses. > > > > > > > > Can anybody else tell me where there are differences and how the > > > > influence the performance. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > TO > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > Forio Business Simulations > > > > > > Will Glass-Husain > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > www.forio.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
