Re: [PHP3] Zend OO syntax overloading support for Java components

>Look cool! I haven't worked with JNI, how much overhead is there in >creating the JVM when it's linked into PHP? It looks like it's created >and destroyed on a script by script basis, is that correct? I'm just >wondering what the overhead is of this vs something like Babelj >(http://www.twmacinta.com/software/babelj/) where a simple server is >always running and PHP simply connects to it to call java methods. JVMs are created and destroyed on a per-process basis. For CGI's this would be on a per script basis. For Apache, this is configurable, but when I test with one client, all I ever get is one JVM which persists until Apache is recycled. I'm still looking into other configuration options. I wasn't previously aware of babelj. For comparison, here's the first stanza of http://www.twmacinta.com/software/babelj/babelj_tests.php3.txt converted to "ext/java" syntax: <? $InetAddress = new Java("java.net.InetAddress"); $localhost = $InetAddress->getByName("www.yahoo.com"); $addr = $localhost->hostAddress; if (substr($addr, 0, 4) == "204.") { echo "$addr - staticMethodCall Passed\n"; } else { echo "$addr - staticMethodCall Failed\n"; } ?> Personally, I feel this is much more natural and usable approach. For fairness, I must note that I need to improve my overload resolution logic in order to handle the third case. Java will not automatically coerce "long" values into "ints". This is coming soon. (Note: on most 32 bit platforms, a C long is the same thing as a Java int, but I didn't want to build in any such assumptions).