Professional PHP

There is recent interest in consolidating Java frameworks with similar approaches. WebWork is joining Struts, which surprised me. Along the same lines, the Java Web Alignment group brings together many big players in the Java framework space:

The Java web framework landscape has become quite fragmented; the purpose of this group is to explore […]

Computerworld has more information on Zend PHP Framework:

“PHP as a language isn’t isolated and people are going to be building SOA types of applications using XML and SOAP,” said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.
“So the idea is to have an Eclipse plug-in here to leverage content [and] leverage the assets that […]

Loud thinking declares that Java has lost its aura of invincibility. Jason Hunter sums it up nicely:
Ruby on Rails today looks poised to eat Java’s mindshare on the web tier. If not Rails, then something else.
It does seem like Java’s mindshare is on the decline, along with sun’s fortunes. There is some evidence that […]