What are the advantages of using Java over Flex/php?
JAVA is best for delivering a single java applet into PART of an HTML page — like a color wheel in an iframe — its strength as a GRAPHICAL COMPONENT of a web page, can hardly be matched. Quite the opposite, PHP is designed to deliver an ENTIRE web page (which can also include a java applet) in response to a general user REQUEST from a form or user input. AJAX, on the other hand, uses javascript to request info from the SERVER in real time — but almost all AJAX request rely on M$ ActiveXobjects, which totally violate the sandbox model of keeping the user’s system immune from changing by web pages or a server — e.g.