Posted by Colin McKinnon on 01/17/07 20:58

Bjarne wrote:

> although being a user of PHP and other scripting-languages for years, I
> have not taken part in any large projects based on PHP. Thus, I don't
> really know how real PHP-applications are deployed out there. This
> posting is a request for input from professional PHP-users and
> architects with experience from designing PHP applications.
>

My gut reaction would be to keep them quite seperate - or at least have the
PHP running in the front end rather than the back end. But a quick browse
through the comments on the PHP/Java integration page
(http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.java.php) suggests that both methods of
direct integration are far from stable/fast.

So I would go with scenario 3; combining well understood, stable and
scalable methods for implementing Java and for implementing PHP.

I'm not quite clear why the user application has to be written in Java
unless the toolkit becomes part of the runtime.

C.

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