Treffer: Java Meets Its Match.

The article informs that scripting languages such as Ajax and PHP are challenging Java and making it easier to quickly develop and prototype Web-services applications. In 1998, when the Web was just starting to upend retail, publishing, software development, and other fields, the chief technology officers at IBM and BEA Systems were hashing out the details for a new version of Java for business software development. The Java computer language changed the way PC software, emergent Web sites, and the back-room systems that powered them were written. PHP has emerged from the back room. The 11-year-old scripting language used by a third of the Internet's sites to quickly pull data and display it on Web pages is ushering in a new class of situational software that can be written and deployed quickly, used for a short period of time, then discarded. INSET: Java Versus PHP: A Delicate Balance For IBM..