Unofficial MWS blog

Ajax & Flex Technologies

We can all see the changes happening on the web nowadays, in the web 2.0 era - sites load faster, they are more interactive and often contain audio/video information; sections on a page are updated independently according to user actions, thus the web application is more responsive and generates less traffic; the user interface has become almost as convenient as using a desktop application.

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Let’s cut to the chase: these are the reasons we moved away from PHP and focused on Java, as we developed more complex applications:

1.PHP is an interpreted language (the same is true of Python and Ruby, incidentally), Java is a compiled one. The nature of Java allows us to find many of the errors at an early stage, which makes an application more stable. Some simple errors in PHP code can be found only during application testing or even after release.

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