Re: Ant: [Php-java-bridge-users] Questions pack // Windows

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Monday, September 12, 2005, 6:29:49 PM, you wrote:

>> 1. BUG. There is no PHP4 version of library in

JB> The PHP/Java Bridge does not work on threaded HTTP
JB> servers, e.g. IIS, unless ZTS is switched on. 
JB> ZTS is experimental in all versions below PHP 5 and I
JB> know of at least 3 incompatible ABI's since 4.3.2.

JB> So the question is: which version of PHP4 on windows
JB> should we support? Isn't it possible to compile your
JB> own php4 binary as described in the README?

4.4.0 - at least you can always ask new users to get latest version of
PHP to avoid bugs introduced earlier. I've tried to compile PHP myself
from CVS, but failed. And also I don't use any web-server - I want to
try mix of Java and PHP in standalone application.

>> 2. About 80% of windows distributive size is
>> php5ts.dll
>> Is it possible to make alternative -light version?
JB> Yes, certainly. But is 3MB really too large these
JB> days?

Yes, sometimes. It will be nice if this application could detect
presence of PHP and link it dynamically regardless of PHP5/PHP4
differences and without additional path setup.

>> 3. Patch to make test run even if unzipped not in
>> c:/php5

JB> Isn't it possible to adjust the php.ini accordingly?
JB> One has to do this during the installation process
JB> anyway. But the widgetTest.bat could be changed, of
JB> course. 

I like things like unzip and run. Like any lazy user I hate doing
things that could be automated or not intuitively setup by default.
Especially test-cases. =)

>> 4. JavaBridge.jar doesn't output any messages about
>> it was started successfully

JB> If you start it at log level 3 or above, as described
JB> in the README, it will output to stdout or to a log
JB> file.

README is very long and contains a lot of information. Read 25k just
to find command line options (especially if there are not any) is a
waste of time. I thought it should be good for an application to
react on help/unknown cmd parameters to be user-friendly.

>> complete. Is there any ways to control running
>> server?

JB> "apachectl start" starts the apache server and the
JB> bridge and "apachectl stop" stops both, please see the
JB> README for details.  Since version 2.0.8 this works on
JB> windows, too.

JB> However, the recommended way to run the backend is to
JB> start it via the php-java-bridge.service script (on
JB> Unix) or via tomcat (on windows).

The bridge is not running under Tomcat or Apache - it is supposed
to be used for standalone application in my case. And yes - it is
windows.
 
>> 6. It would be good to have a ToC in readme.
JB> Yes.

=)

>> Q1. Is it possible to extend Java class with PHP?
>> I.e. make PHP class, inherited from one of Java?

JB> The java_closure() call currently accepts only
JB> interfaces, not classes. It would be nice if the Sun's
JB> dynamic proxy would accept a class, but it doesn't. If
JB> we want this, we must write our own proxy compiler.

I don't think it is easy, esp. for me. =) Probably It should be
easier to create a proxy Java object, which will call invokable
PHP functions where it needed. The problem is that I still unsure
if I've got the whole picture of this bridge and how to plug it
into Java application correctly.


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