I am trying to sort out several technologies and how they fit together. The basic problem I want to solve is to be able to use BrowserHawk, a JavaBean by CyScape, from a PHP script. In researching how to do this (and there are several relevant articles written) I have come across several different options and do not know how to weigh the pros and cons to come with the right combination of configurations. I am running Apache Server 1.3.23, PHP 4.1.1, and Java 2 SDK 1.4.0 on a RedHat 7.0 system.
1. There appear to be two choices of configuring Java with PHP: (a) rebuild PHP with Java support (./configure --with-java ...) and (b) integrate PHP into a servlet environment. 2. Apparently (see http://www.intechra.net/bh/install.html) in order to accomplish 1.(a) I must use the dynamic loading method (--with-apxs) to build PHP, which means I must also rebuild Apache (./configure --enable-module=so --enable-module=SHARED_CORE) Question: why? If I am rebulding PHP with Java support then why does Apache care? 3. What exactly does 1.(b) mean? How does one integrate PHP into a servlet environment, and how does this affect the Apache configuration? Sure, Apache will spawn a servlet to execute a php script, and another servlet (a JVM) to execute the BrowserHawk Java Bean.. but is this better? Is it hard to configure the system like this? 4. I have also run across an article advocating installing PHP as an Apache DSO, a dynamically loadable module. wait a second.... I thought PHP already was by default a dynamically loadable module to Apache! This is very fuzzy to me. Any advice on sorting this out for this web technology newbie would be appreciated. For example, is there one preferred configuration (dare I say.. a standard?) for getting PHP, Java, and Apache working together? TIA, Rich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
