Re: another crazy idea

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > I am no big Java expert, but I don't see how this would work. I don't > thikn it is possible to write a native C program which calls a Java class > running in a JVM, but I could be wrong here. If you can come up with a > example of this working, then it can be done in PHP. Well, I don't know about C. OpenStep let's you use Java objects from Objective-C and vice versa by means of a java bridge (http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosxserver/System/Documentation/Developer/YellowBox/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/JavaBridge/JavaBridge.html) This is probably significantly easier from Obj-C than C as both are fully OO languages. I suppose it would theoretically be possible to add an Obj-C module to php and do this, but it would require creating a bridge similar to what apple has done, and something tells me that they don't give out the information on how they did it :)