[Php-java-bridge-users] Help using php-java-bridge

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Hi,

For integrating a payment gateway for our web site, our org has been asked to configure PHP with java support. We thought of using WHM's (we use a cPanel linux server running CentOS) EasyApache to rebuild Apache and PHP with Java, but when we clicked on the 'More info' link next to Java in EasyApache, it took us to the following page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.java.php
 
 Unfortunately, the page also warns that the php extension is unstable and may be given up in future php versions. The comments on that page then point to php-java bridge and recommend it highly: http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/
 
Our questions are:

1.) We already have JDK 1.4.2 at /usr/local/. Does this mean we already have java running or that php has java support?
2.) If we were to use php-java-brdige, will it meet our gateway provider's requirement of having PHP with java support? Basically, the shopping cart is a php/mysql thing, so the php application needs to call certain .jar files relevant to the payment gateway.
3.) If we install php-java-bridge, can we remove the jdk

 We are running a VPS (Virtuozzo on 64-bit kernel), but we don't have a great IT team to support us as we are an org, so I am hoping someone here could guide us about the Java support.

Thanks in advance,
Ramdak

       
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