I am trying to find help or information on running the Java extension with PHP under Apache on Redhat Linux using a Sun JVM.
I am aware that the PHP documentation says that the Java extension is experimental. I am also aware that people say the ISAPI version does not work well and that running PHP as a CGI should give better results. We've tried, and so far it doesn't seem to be more reliable. Oddly, it does work most of the time. However, maybe 3/10 times or so it gives an error. When using the Java extension with PHP running as ISAPI, PHP gives the error "Unable to create Java Virtual Machine" .. when running as a CGI I get that or one of several different errors--again, only part of the time. That is, when an error does appear, refreshing the page once or twice will usually bring up the correct output. A bit more background: The company I work for has a single sign-in system for web access. You check for a cookie and redirect to another site if the cookie is not set. That site authenticates the user via a web-based login, sets the cookie, and redirects back to your site. Your site then reads the cookie and decrypts it using a Java object. At first, I was frustrated that the cookie decrypter was only available in Java.. However, after a while I began to see why they chose to do it this way: so that you could decrypt the cookie from various languages and platforms, but they only needed to maintain one code base. Now, I'm just frustrated that PHP doesn't work very well with Java. Myself and several others have looked extensively for the answer to this and we've tried all the viable remedies that have been suggested. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, can it be confirmed or denied that Java support will eventually be dropped from PHP? Plans to improve it? Thanks in advance for any help or pointers!! -- Kelly Hallman // Ultrafancy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
