Martin Brown (mc@mcslp.com), Freelance Writer, Consultant
Doug Monroe (monroe@sqnt.com), System Administration Consultant, DMA Inc.

15 Jan 2008

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Set up a PHP Web interface for the Java™ business application using a database created in earlier in this series. The PHP Web interface collects information from users and sends the session data to the Java business application for processing and for a response.

In this tutorial

• Comparing connection technologies
  • The Web service method
  • The PHP Java Bridge
  • Differences and similarities
  • Performance
  • Java and PHP development
• Developing a Web interface
  • Revisiting the Web interface for the Java environment
  • Parsing the responses
  • Re-deploying in PHP
• Creating a PHP interface to the Java survey data
  • Creating a new instance of the Survey application
  • Generating the Survey form through a single method
  • Generating the form by using SurveyQuestion methods directly
  • Submitting survey responses back to the Java classes
  • Submitting a survey response

Objectives

To look at using PHP and Java technology together to build a Web interface to your original Java classes that support the Survey application.

Prerequisites

You must complete all five parts of this series before proceeding with this installment.

System requirements

To follow along with this tutorial, you need the following software:

• IBM pSeries® server (This code was tested using AIX® Version 5.3.)
• Apache Tomcat system
• The Eclipse IDE
• The Java 5 64-bit SDK (You need to register to download this package, but registration is free.)
• The Mozilla Web browser for AIX

Duration
2 hours

Formats
html, pdf