i need to make multiple calls to different web services using PHP and i was wondering if the php-java combination would be more appropriate in dealing with this issue.
The multiple calls to the services if called sequentially will create a significant amount of delay, so i am looking for ways to overcome that.
I have read articles that 'simulate' concurrent processing in php and deal with this particular issue but i was wondering if the introduction of let's say a java socket server that accepts requests and creates worker threads would be more efficient (faster).
Any comments appreciated.
regards,
Interestingly I've been thinking about this issue as well. You have a number of options:
(2) is the interesting one (to me). You could run CLI PHP scripts to do the processing of beanstalk requests. Or you could use Java. Which depends on a large number of factors. I'd generally favour a single language environment over multi-language where possible and practical. But I can also envision instances where a Java backend would be a good idea.
That's exactly the reason why we switched from php to java - because of multithreading. We had an app that reads rss feeds through http. Switching from single threaded php app to several threads in java gave about 10x boost. I can't say anything about php threading simulation though.