Java

[Anon]

Is it possible to execute java code from php?
I want to take advantage of java's thread capabilities from php but I don't know how to "use" java classes from php.
Thanks!

[Anon]

I'm far from an expert on this, so use
a big grain of salt. I'm pretty sure there
is a standard method to allow the calling
of Java object methods. For deeper integration, there is a method of running
PHP4 as a servlet within the servlet container, allowing PHP to take advantage of the pooling nature of the container instead of having to spawn a JVM for each object method invocation. See the source tarball
for the documentation (unix), there may be docs in the java packages linked next to the windows binaries on php.net's download page.
I have no idea if this works with PHP3.

Hope that helps a little.

Mike

[Anon]

PHP's Java and Servlet features only work with PHP4 although I believe there
was an earlier framework called babelj that allowed java to be accessed from
other languages such as php3. Not as elegant as PHP's Java feature IMO.

BTW, the PHP source distribution is the same for Win32 and Ux platforms so the
readme's for the Java and servlet features should be there in the ext/java and
sapi/servlet directories respectively.

Alex