The php/Java bridge [1] is a streamed, XML-based network protocol, which can be used to connect a native script engine, PHP, with a Java or ECMA 335 virtual machine. It is more than 50 times faster than local RPC via SOAP, requires less resources on the web-server side, and it is faster and more reliable than direct communication via the Java Native Interface
I have used m0n0wall since years and I am very satisfied about its robustness and its focus not wanting to be a all-in-one firewall . It does its job as firewall and that is all I needed. It has a nice webGUI for administration, which is coded in PHP.
Some months ago, I looked into the webGUI code and thought that this could be done much better. The design and logic are actually implemented into the same code. There are some other quirks which i don’t like. There is not a single line of object oriented PHP code. Several other projects like pfSense, freenas and askoziaPBX are m0n0wall based. I also wanted to make a new code base for these projects. Some small new features are also planned for the final release:
I also wanted to use a framework (don’t wanted to reinvent the wheel) which had to be under BSD license, because m0n0wall is also released under BSD license. So I took the fantastic Zend Framework. For those who not know: Zend is the big company behind PHP’s core developing.
The PHP5 OOP based new webGUI Project, called m0n0-php5, is available under the my Projects page. Thesource can be found in my GIT repo.
A release is planned on Q1 2009.
So mal wieder was PHPiges:
PHOCOA [1] (pronounced faux-ko) is a PHP framework (licensed under the MIT License) for developing web applications. PHOCOA’s primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and higher-quality. The framework handles most of the “dirty work” of web application development by providing infrastructure for all of the common tasks. Most of your time writing PHOCOA apps will be spent designing your GUI and writing application-specific logic rather than dealing with form data, database calls, etc.
PHOCOA is an object-oriented, event-driven, componentized, MVC (model-view-controller) web framework inspired by Apple’s Cocoa and WebObjects technologies.