[Php-java-bridge-users] Calling a PHP script from a Java servlet directly via the file system

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Hi,

I have a Java servlet (myServlet) running on Tomcat (downloaded from Apache).  I also have a PHP script (test.php) sitting in the same directory as the servlet.  I want to call functions in the PHP script from the Java servlet.

I have deployed the JavaBridge.war file, can hit and run the examples, so I'm guessing nothing is broken in so far as JavaBridge and Tomcat are concerned. 

>From the examples, to reference the PHP script I should use something like:

ScriptEngine scriptEngine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName( "php-invocable" );
scriptEngine.eval( new URLReader( "http://localhost/test.php" );
This does not make sense to me as my PHP script is not browseable (I only have Tomcat running on port 8080).  I'd prefer not to access my script via a new request to Tomcat.  Isn't it possible to access the script directly via the filesystem?  If I try to pass in a URL as a file rather than http, I get a class cast exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection cannot be cast to java.net.HttpURLConnection


Thanks,

Bernard.
 		 	   		  
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