TheProgrammer Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hey everybody, I have a more tricky situation here and maybe you can throw some ideas. So, i have a site written in php that needs to communicate preaty intensive with a live server (on the same machine, written in Java), in order to get/set some resources, benefit from some real caching and persistence etc. I have several options for this, and I'm not sure what is best as performance. 1. Classic communication via sockets. This might be slow if i have a socket connect on every page. Maybe with a good setup i can benefit a performance boost from permanent connections. 2. RPC via SOAP or something else. I think this would be slower than sockets. 3. Shared memory communication (pipes?). At a first glance this looks to be the fastest alternative. I'm preaty new to shared memory communication in php, actually in general. I don't know what the connect overhead is but since it's not passing thought the whole tcp/ip protocol stack it should be way faster. The problems might be that the communication is not asynchronous or buffered which could cause big problems, and that the 2 communicator will have to stay on the same virtual machine. Plus, I'm not sure how i can send/receive more complex types of data, like arrays/maps. Maybe there are libraries to handle pipe communication more efficiently. Do you know any? 4. the php-java bridge http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/ looks very nice and interesting and they say that the communication is 50 times faster than with rpc. however, i don't see how i can use it. it only allows me to instantiate java classes in php not communicate with an already started application. maybe if i run php inside a java servlet it could work, but i'm not sure it's the right thing to do since the java server should only be a tool not the main process. What do you think it's the best choice, or do you know any other? I'm especially interested by performance, but i can't ignore scalability either. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102117-php-communicating-with-java-server/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenk Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Use a RESTful protocol of your own design. Much quicker than the highly bloated SOAP protocol. Failing that, ditch the PHP code for Java, or vice versa. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102117-php-communicating-with-java-server/#findComment-522761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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