[Php-java-bridge-users] object persistence best practice?

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O wise developers,

I am trying to persist a java object (from PHP) using PHP/Java Bridge,
because interacting with that object is expensive and I don't want to
repeat calculations.  I have read through the examples and the FAQ,
and done some searching through the mailing list, but found very few
references to persistence.  The only references I did find used
sessions.  It was fairly easy to implement persistence using a named
session, but I found that it has the problem of eventual expiration.
Is this the only way to persist an object?  The FAQ seems to imply
that there is another (built-in) way, but it doesn't give any hint as
to what that might be.

I am running PHP/Java Bridge 5.4.4.2 on Tomcat 6.0.20, and connecting
to it from PHP5 running on a vanilla Apache2 install.

Thanks for your help,

- Chris Sullins



>From the FAQ:

> Q: How do I make my script state (objects or variables) persistent?
> A: If you must code it yourself: with e.g. java_session()->put("buf", $stringBuffer)

>From the Session Sharing example:

  if(is_null(java_values($session->get("counter")))) {
    $session->put("counter", 1);
  }
  $counter = java_values($session->get("counter"));