XML? JSP? Cocoon? Tomcat?

[Fireman-x]

Anybody on this board played with any of these cool toys yet? What do you think of em? I'm trying to decide if I wanna move away from PHP into JSP and XML. Any comments? :confused:

[nanode]

I've been using PHP for a while and wanted to mess w/ tomcat. I haven't quite got it working with apache yet. tomcat will startup, but apache has some issues loading the mod_jk.so I built. (mod_jk is the successor to mod_jserv)

I'm a big fan of the java language, but there seems to be a TON of work involved in implementing a servlet engine correctly.

Good luck.

[cotfessi]

i'm just getting ready to implement a servlet engine (probably tomcat) tonight with apache... I personnaly think that JSP and servlets are great... I use them here at work. I too am a fan of the java language, and personally I think that this is one of the best places for it... on the server. The servlets are already compiled and running when a request comes in so there isn't any overhead for the typical compile...

what negatives do you have about PHP that you're looking to move?

[Fireman-x]

Well, PHP is really awesome, the database support is incredible, and it's pretty easy to use as well. But the way things are going, Java will be more popular than anything else within a year, and PHP's support of XML just isn't there, plus the whole servlet implementation of a server and the javabeans extensibility puts it way ahead of PHP...

Has anybody played around with Cocoon yet? I'm really interested to hear some comments about it...