<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.java.html">Java</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="java.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.java.html">Java</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.java" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> There are two possible ways to bridge PHP and Java: you can either <a href="java.servlet.html" class="link">integrate PHP into a Java Servlet environment</a>, which is the more stable and efficient solution, or integrate Java support into PHP. The former is provided by a SAPI module that interfaces with the Servlet server, the latter by this Java extension. </p> <p class="para"> The Java extension provides a simple and effective means for creating and invoking methods on Java objects from PHP. The JVM is created using JNI, and everything runs in-process. </p> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="simpara">This extension is <em class="emphasis">EXPERIMENTAL</em>. The behaviour of this extension including the names of its functions and any other documentation surrounding this extension may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This extension should be used at your own risk.</p></div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.java.html">Java</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="java.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.java.html">Java</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
