[Php-java-bridge-users] How to extend a Java class in PHP?

Hi everybody,

first of all thanks for this great piece of software that makes it  
easy to use powerful Java libs in a PHP based application. That's  
really awesome.

Currently I'm working on a PDF generation using iText and I'm  
surprised that it's quite easy to find my way around. But of course I  
wouldn't post this if there wasn't this one thing that is not working  
for me: writing a PHP class that derives from a Java class.

Before you guys scream "RTFM!", I really tried to find this out myself  
but all I could find was the FAQ file in the documentation. This  
points to java_closure() and to an example in the file script_api.php  
in the tests folder.

Reading the documentation of java_closure() and the example only the  
implementation of java interfaces in a PHP class is described (which  
will definitely be useful for me later - I'm sure).

So my question: can someone please explain how a PHP class can extend  
a Java class?

Any hint would be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Alexander Thomas