Re: [Php-java-bridge-users] php/Java bridge - website and notes

[<php...@li...>]

Hi James,


> > For Windows installs, I had to cross-read
> > information from a variety of places [...] to 
> >learn that:

> >  * the php_java.dll file distributed w/ PHP 5.2.0

AFAIK there is no "php_java.dll" file packaged with
PHP 5.2.0. The last supported version was 4.2.x, see

http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=7679

and the documentation that's part of the PHP download.


> I tried for a long time to load the DLL because of
> numerous references
> of it being "10x faster than the pure-Java
> version".

Yes. But this shouldn't be an issue. Even in the worst
case (one round-trip for each statement) our pure PHP
implementation is still faster than a comm. via SOAP.
Furthermore this issue only exists with the C based
PHP
version. The Java based PHP version can (and does) 
optimize the code through the JIT.

But back to the documentation issue; 
I think the real problem are the users who blindly
download a compiled php_java.dll from
http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_java.dll and 
expect that it somehow works; without looking at 
the documentation.

More (i.e. redundant) documentation doesn't help imho,

users won't read it anyway.


Regards,
Jost Boekemeier



	
		
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