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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 9: PHP-Java Bridge

Our special guest today is Kevin Schroder. Kevin is a technical consultant for Zend Technologies’ Professional Services Group. He has wide range of experience from large scale system administration to software development in multiple languages. Based out of Dallas, TX, he travels throughout the country for Zend providing consulting, programming and architecture services centered on PHP. Today Kevin is going to talk to us about using the PHP-Java bridge.

Using PHP-Java Bridges with WebLogic Server

dev2dev.bea.com has posted an interesting tutorial on using PHP and Java bridges with WebLogic Server. Click through and I’ll share with you what I know.

Using PHP on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Joe McCabe posted an interesting article over on developers.sun.com about the various ways to get PHP up and running on “Sun Java System Web Server”. Click on inside and I’ll give you the details.

Codemash Teaser: Caffeinated PHP

PHP is a powerful programming language but it is also a specific programming language. It, specifically, builds web-enabled platforms for information transmission. But what about situations where deeper integration into the enterprise is required? Or situations where you need resource caching or persistence so-as to not roundhouse kick your backend servers into oblivion, ala Chuck Norris. The PHP Java Bridge gives you a method of extending PHP’s functionality without having to build a C-based PHP extension to handle your need.

A Quick Look at Two BIRT Books

Since I’ve been covering Zend Platform 3.0, and it’s support for BIRT, it reminded me, my buddy Heather Fox over at Prentice Hall just sent me 2 books from Addison-Wesley Professional on BIRT. Come on in, let’s take a look at them.

jMaki Project Announces Support for PHP

The jMaki project, which looks like it started life as a JSP tag project, announced today that they now supports PHP as well as Java. Click on inside, I’ll dig up the details.

HiveMind on PHP and Java

Our buddies over at hivemind.co.uk have published another PHP article. This time, instead of decrying PHP, they show how to use the PHP-Java bridge. Let’s take a look at it shall we?

Stewart Nickolas on J2EE, Interop and ZendCon

Stewart Nickolas wrote QEDWiki, in my mind he needs no further introduction. For those who don’t remember, it’s that uber-cool wiki thingy IBM is working on. We’ve covered QEDWiki several times here on DevZone. Stewart is speaking with Andi Gutmans at ZendCon this year on “Interoperability between J2EE and PHP”. Since QEDWiki is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while I can’t help but feel that his session at ZendCon is going to be cool too. I since I love cool, I decided to give Stewart a call to see if I could get a sneak preview.