Comments on: IcePHP – some serious RPC for PHP? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:10:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: peter http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/comment-page-1/#comment-21678 peter Wed, 03 May 2006 07:04:02 +0000 1607521337#comment-21678 To fully understand the author, it's best that you try to write a Singleton object using languages like PHP To fully understand the author, it’s best that you try to write a Singleton object using languages like PHP

]]> By: mrsmiley http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/comment-page-1/#comment-870 mrsmiley Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1607521337#comment-870 <p>Cant quite figure out the specifics from the site, but is this serious competition for the SRM project?</p> <p>Could this be the application server for PHP that developers have been looking for?</p> Cant quite figure out the specifics from the site, but is this serious competition for the SRM project?

Could this be the application server for PHP that developers have been looking for?

]]> By: Lucas Chan http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/comment-page-1/#comment-871 Lucas Chan Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1607521337#comment-871 <p>Another quality post, Harry. Very interesting stuff indeed.</p> Another quality post, Harry. Very interesting stuff indeed.

]]> By: BDKR http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/comment-page-1/#comment-872 BDKR Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1607521337#comment-872 <p>It seems to me that anything is serious competition for SRM. The last time I checked it's been two years since an i was dotted or a t was crossed over there. And that's a crying shame too as SRM is a fantastic idea. </p> It seems to me that anything is serious competition for SRM. The last time I checked it’s been two years since an i was dotted or a t was crossed over there. And that’s a crying shame too as SRM is a fantastic idea.

]]> By: HarryF http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/08/04/icephp-some-serious-rpc-for-php/comment-page-1/#comment-873 HarryF Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1607521337#comment-873 <p>As it goes think SRM is more an alternative to Tomcat and Java servlets - a container for running PHP scripts as "servlets". But as BDKR says, doubtful it's ever going to be finished.</p> <p>ICE seems to be two things (from a PHP persective);</p> <p>- a powerful way to get PHP talking to other systems (RPC). The remote servers need to be written with C++ or Java. In other words competition to SOAP or XML-RPC. It would also be effectively be competition to <a href="http://universe-phpext.sourceforge.net/">this CORBA extension</a> or other mechanisms like using Java's RMI via the PHP / Java extension.</p> <p>- it also seems to offer a persistance mechanism - a remote layer of objects above a DB. This could be useful for object modelling (in C++ or Java) and also for fault tolerance and reducing load on a DB. That's also interesting because you could build, say, a Java desktop GUI which talks to the same remote objects. Whether this really "works" remains to be seen. Experience with CORBA has made the "conventional wisdom" that publishing a fine grained API over a network "fails" when it comes to performance. ICE is seems to be an attempt to "fix" CORBA, and make this possible. Very interesting if it works.</p> As it goes think SRM is more an alternative to Tomcat and Java servlets – a container for running PHP scripts as “servlets”. But as BDKR says, doubtful it’s ever going to be finished.

ICE seems to be two things (from a PHP persective);

- a powerful way to get PHP talking to other systems (RPC). The remote servers need to be written with C++ or Java. In other words competition to SOAP or XML-RPC. It would also be effectively be competition to this CORBA extension or other mechanisms like using Java’s RMI via the PHP / Java extension.

- it also seems to offer a persistance mechanism – a remote layer of objects above a DB. This could be useful for object modelling (in C++ or Java) and also for fault tolerance and reducing load on a DB. That’s also interesting because you could build, say, a Java desktop GUI which talks to the same remote objects. Whether this really “works” remains to be seen. Experience with CORBA has made the “conventional wisdom” that publishing a fine grained API over a network “fails” when it comes to performance. ICE is seems to be an attempt to “fix” CORBA, and make this possible. Very interesting if it works.

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