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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