Thread: [Php-java-bridge-users] JavaBridge version 5.x

Hello!

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I was wondering what's new in the new JavaBridge 5.x versions! In the =
NEWS file I saw that some things are not backwards compatible anymore, =
but nothing about why I should upgrade. Can you please tell me if (and =
why) its better, faster, stronger (;)) or something else?

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Rene

Hi,

> but nothing about why I should upgrade

the cache is now enabled. This means that the following code:

 $s = new java("java.lang.StringBuffer");
 for($i=0; $i<400000; $i++) $s->append ($i);

runs in less than 15 seconds. -- The bsh script engine runs the same test in ~18 seconds.

The old C code has been removed, as it is about 5 times slower than the pure Java solution.


On the other hand the current PHP versions (php 5.2.x) fail to run the following code properly:

  class Clazz { function __toString() { return "1"; }
  $obj = new Clazz ();

  if ($obj == 1) ...

One must write the above code as:

  if (((boolean)(string) $obj) == 1) ...
 
or
 
  if (java_values ($obj) == 1) ...


I don't I'd consider the above limitation a bug. 

In PHP version 4 it was possible to cast an object to a boolean value for example. And I don't see
a reason why this feature is not available in php version 5...


Regards,
Jost Boekemeier



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