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

I've never used PHP with Java but from what I understand about it you can access Java methods from PHP. If you have the Java source you could add a method that PHP would access that will produce the same results as connecting through a socket. The question I have here is would there be an advantage to doing this? Which one would be more expensive? As I said, I've never used PHP to access a Java method so I don't have first-hand exposure to performance. -D Christian Calloway 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net