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May 02, 2005
PHP and Java, sitting in a tree
yesterday somebody started a "Struts with PHP" thread on the Struts users mailing lists. folks were sort of scratching their heads about how one might use PHP for a webapp's view layer rather than JSP. come to find out there's relevant Java Community Process work going on: JSR 223 Scripting for the JavaTM Platform.
the mind boggles at the possibilities. if you think about the spectrum of sizes of web sites and apps, you'll recognize that there are folks like me who love living in the (comparatively) big and bloated J2EE Model 2 world, and those like my pals Olivia and Creighton who prefer the simple, light, zero-XML-and-properties-config-files, embedded-within-Apache world of PHP, mod_perl and the like (that is not to say that you can't do a simple, lightweight web site with servlets and JSP or a complex webapp in PHP - i've done both - but i think the 80/20 rule applies here). a PHP/Java bridge would let all of us collaborate on projects using our favorite technologies in our own spheres of influence. hey, we could rewrite the back end of Suicide Girls in Java!
anyway, a draft was out for public review, so i'll pull that down and give it a read the next time i burn out on World of Warcraft. am looking forward to embedding a PHP interpreter into Tomcat and seeing what my friends and i come up with.
Posted by bcm at May 2, 2005 11:43 AM
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