Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-19 Thread Joe Nathan
Jean-frederic Clere-3 wrote: Henri Gomez wrote: PHP rewritten in Java could be a good idea for the core but what about the various extensions ? That is a very hard part that needs JNI to load and to interface the API of the extensions. There are also very easily threads and memory

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-19 Thread Joe Nathan
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote: Actually, that is exactly the problem. Everyone and their dog can learn basics of php in a couple of days, creating illusionary supply of countless self-appointed web experts with neither skill nor potential to ever move past the most basic level. hey, can you do

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-18 Thread Joe Nathan
arjan tijms wrote: I'm not really sure about that. For instance, even PHP web sites 'admit' that Java is a great deal larger: http://www.phpmag.net/magphpde/magphpde_news/psecom,id,27191,nodeid,5.html Typically book stores (at least in Europe) carry more book about Java than about

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Nathan
Pid-2 wrote: And how are you judging that? You should ask Redhat! For example, My products are in Java! But my business website is in PHP! I see my ISP a;one having customers in thousands who might be using PHP, no Java support. It's the same for most small websites, because they cannot

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Nathan
PHP is based on interpreter. Instead, pre-compiler as in JSP can improve performance of PHP significantly. Then there will be lots of people switching to Tomcat regards. pankaj narang wrote: Hello I am listening everything silently here but I think Joe is correct -- View

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Nathan
George L. Sexton-2 wrote: It's not just writing a byte-code compiler that would convert the PHP to java code, or even a parser that would re-write a PHP page into JSP. It's creating the massively large library of functions. Isn't it true that most of libs are already in Java packages?

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-16 Thread Joe Nathan
Mladen Turk-3 wrote: Why would someone wish to do that at the first place. You should realize that PHP world is lot bigger than Java world! Having both will have many merits. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-supporting-PHP-tf4080523.html#a11643194 Sent from

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-15 Thread Joe Nathan
I am talking about in-built capability that people do NOT need to install heaps of cranky-installation software packages! regards. Yoav Shapira-2 wrote: Hey, On 7/14/07, Bill Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-14 Thread Joe Nathan
I think if Tomcat also supports PHP scripts, it could be wonderful! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-supporting-PHP-tf4080523.html#a11597960 Sent from the Tomcat - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Tomcat supporting PHP

2007-07-14 Thread Joe Nathan
Bill Barker-2 wrote: Google is your friend :) http://www.google.com/search?q=php+servlet. I don't think that there is much interest in hosting a PHP servlet in Tomcat however. I didn't find much useful info from search. I think there may be lots of people to have a single server doing