Re: PHP talk to a running Java program on a Linux platform..?

on 7/18/00 10:33 AM, Christian Calloway at cubadc@mail.earthlink.net wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've run into a bit of a programming quandry, and need some advise on how I > should proceed. I have a java server program running on the server which > acts as a countdown clock, it counts from N time to 0 (it does some other > stuff too, but thats not important). This program acts as a server, in that > everytime a socket connection is made to the port its monitoring, it will > return the amount of time left to the client, and close the connection. In > my case, I want to show the amount of time remaining in my browser, so I > have a php script handle opening up a client socket to the server program, > and storing all the necessary information, and then returning that to my > browser. It works fine, but to me it seems to make little sence to have a > php script, which is physically sitting right next to my Java program on the > server, to go through the work of establishing a client-socket session. Is > there another more efficient and senseable way to have my PHP script talk to > a background running Java program?Thanks everyone, > > Christian Calloway > > have you tried opening a port to 127.0.0.1? I have done that from perl scripts to java port listeners and it worked fine. it's a bit faster as well. that's a really cool idea, btw