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

on 7/18/00 2:03 PM, Darrell Brogdon at dbrogdon@sourceforge.net wrote: > 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 Accessing Java methods from PHP? I don't see how this is possible. If anyone knows more about this, or has an URL, please send it my way! Thanks, Rob