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Does PHP support COM or DCOM?

Does PHP support JAVA?

Does PHP support CORBA?

Sep 16th, 2000 12:13
Richard Donkin, Nathan Wallace, Zeev Suraski

PHP 3.0 supports a very limited aspect of COM, in a very ugly notation 
(it's probably not practically-useable).  PHP 4.0, on the other hand,
takes advantage of Zend's new OO syntax overloading to implement a 
full-featured COM module, that allows easy OO access to COM (or DCOM) 
objects that are scriptable.

We'll be looking into Java and CORBA support in the future.  PHP4 has an
extension called satellite that supports CORBA calls via ORBit (the
GNOME ORB).  More details at
http://www.php.net/manual/ref.satellite.php

Christophe Saout has independently developed PHP-ORBit, a CORBA 
binding for PHP4 and ORBit 0.5.  This is currently 
in its early stages but should be interoperable with any ORB 
that ORBit can talk to. More details at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-orbit/