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

You could use the visitor- or the decorator design pattern to intercept the
method calls from your Java class.

It all depends on your requirements. If your java class is a data structure
with a few methods, I would use a visitor. To override specific methods from
the superclass I would use a decorator.

Please see a standard text book or wikipedia.org for details.

As far as the bridge is concerned, all you need is java_closure() to convert
your PHP object into a Java object. After that you can apply whatever
pattern you prefer to merge the two java instances.

Regards,
Jost Boekemeier

2. Jul 2009 12:52 nachm. schrieb am <
php...@li...>:

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

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