ha, interesting indeed (not that I intend to migrate my programming to PHP,
I am quite happy with JSP right now, but still...)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Walnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: SV: Orionserver & php
>
> >what exactly do you mean by "compile PHP as a servlet"? Isnt PHP written
in
> >C/C++?
>
> It's written in C and comes with different wrappers for executing it, the
> most common being a standalone CGI process or compiled into Apache as a
module.
>
> However, there is also a Servlet wrapper, which uses JNI to bind to the
> native code. The advantages of using this over the standalone CGI
> executable are:
>
> - Speed (a new process does not need to be forked for each request, and
the
> engine is reused)
> - Access to Java objects - PHP can construct objects, access attributes,
> methods and properties.
> - Request, Response, Session, RequestDispatcher, etc objects available to
> PHP page
> - Runs in same context. Calls to EJBs do not have to be passed over RMI
>
> The downside to running PHP as a Servlet is that it's tricky to install,
> and because it uses JNI it's not protected by the VM.
>
> There will be a howto for setting this up appearing on orionsupport.com
> within the next few days if you're interested.
>
> -Joe Walnes
>
>
