Java has always been more maintainable than Perl or PHP scripts. With JSP, Java also becomes easy for web page design. Where Java has had trouble in the past is performance. That unfortunate perception is now obsolete. Java servers can now outperform the leading contenders for web site design.
All results are in operations per second.
The results are sorted by Hello performance. The fourth keepalive request closes the connection. It tests the web server's maximum static page rate. It measures the servlet engine overhead. In other words, no matter how efficient you make your servlet code, you will never get better performance than this number.