Hiveminds has published a new tutorial today that looks at bridging the gap between Java and PHP by allowing the execution of Java jar files from within PHP.
Here’s how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar files in Java and call them and use their methods in PHP. Use the quick and easy PHP language to bring Java muscle to your web pages
They step you through the creation of an autoexec file, briefly touch on the Wampserver package, help you get the php-java bridge installed, and give you some sample Java code to play with. It’s a pretty basic almost “hello world” kind of example that they give the PHP code for as well, showing how to execute it from within your code. [Read More]
