Howto PHP / Java bridge on Debian

Posted by on January 20, 2006

Updated 20. Marts 2007

The PHP / Java Bridge makes it possible to run use java objects within your PHP code. For example; let’s say you have a jar-file containing some functionality you may want to use in a PHP application.

To use this you must have a Java installed – either the latest version of Java (JDK) or a black hawk version installed.

Get the source code php-java-bridge_3.0.4.tar.bz2 from the PHP / Java bridge website and unpack it with

wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/php-java-bridge/php-java-bridge_3.0.8.tar.bz2


tar xvjf php-java-bridge_3.0.4.tar.bz2


cd php-java-bridge-3.0.4


phpize - in order to use this you'll need to have the php5-dev package installed


./configure --with-java=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun - be sure to set this to the path where the Java installation is located

If the ./configure command fails because the automake version is less than 1.6 try this

apt-get install automake1.6
update-alternatives --config automake

Select version 1.6 of automake in the update-alternatives dialog and then try to run ./configure again

Now we just need to compile and install, this is done by:

make
make install-modules

Add this line to php.ini in order to enabled the PHP/Java bridge extension:

extension=java.so

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7 Comments.

  1. arts October 29, 2009 at 18:12

    Hola.. necesito ayuda me da el error : Call to undefined function java_require(), stoy intentado hacer lo q dice d editar el java.ini pero alli no encuentro ninguna linea java_home, estoy usando php-java-bridge 5.4.4.2.. quien m pueda ayudar c lo agradeceria…!!

  2. dekoo September 13, 2009 at 18:35

    Hi.

    I’ve got all working just by starting the “mini-server”:

    java -jar JavaBridge.jar SERVLET_LOCAL:8080

    and running such PHP-script from console:

    So, I have a question – why do I need java.so? Because all work fine without this extension.

  3. Eduardo July 27, 2009 at 17:17

    Hello, thx for the howto.

    I install the following this instructions but show me this error.

    http://172.17.0.12/java.php

    Fatal error: Class ‘Java’ not found in /var/www/java.php on line 4

    ############################################

    java.php

    getProperty(’java.version’) . ”;
    echo ‘Java vendor=’ . $system->getProperty(’java.vendor’) . ”;
    echo ‘OS=’ . $system->getProperty(’os.name’) . ‘ ‘ .
    $system->getProperty(’os.version’) . ‘ on ‘ .
    $system->getProperty(’os.arch’) . ‘ ‘;

    // java.util.Date example
    $formatter = new Java(’java.text.SimpleDateFormat’,
    “EEEE, MMMM dd, yyyy ‘at’ h:mm:ss a zzzz”);

    echo $formatter->format(new Java(’java.util.Date’));

    ?>

    ############################################3

    Apache log.

    [Fri Jul 24 18:24:58 2009] [notice] caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : VM : 1.6.0_14@http://java.sun.com/
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : VMBridge version : 5.2.0
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : logFile :
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : default logLevel : 3
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : socket : INET_LOCAL:9267
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : java.ext.dirs : /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/lib/ext:/usr/java/packages/lib/ext
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : php.java.bridge.base: /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs
    Jul 24 18:25:09 VMBridge INFO : thread pool size : 20
    [Fri Jul 24 18:25:09 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured — resuming normal operations

  4. Christine November 13, 2007 at 11:18

    Thanks a lot for these instructions! They were really helpful.

    The only problem I faced was enabling the PHP/Java bridge extension: In the end, I created a java.ini file in (on my machine) the /etc/php5/conf.d directory and added the following lines:

    extension=java.so
    [java]

    After restarting my apache, it worked.

    See also
    http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/installation.php

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  6. vamsi March 26, 2007 at 14:02

    i have installed tomcat bridge of apachefriends in xampp1.6a ,i want to know what should i do next

  8. Administrator August 1, 2006 at 17:46

    Hey mbert

    Thats just wonderful when everything just works :)

  9. Bob May 7, 2006 at 19:46

    Hello Clement

    Remember that it requires automake version 1.6

    Best regards

  10. Clement February 25, 2006 at 15:12

    Hi !

    I want to say you that PHP-Java-Bridge seems can’t be compilde on Debian…

    Regards.

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