I gave a talk Wednesday at the Silicon Valley Google Technology Users’ Group on using Quercus in the App Engine. One of the examples I gave was using the low-level data API from PHP and scheduling PHP “tasks” using Task Queues. I’ll walk through the source of that demo here to give you an idea of how Quercus makes it easy to mesh a Java platform with PHP code. At the end, I’ll also give you an idea of what the next steps would be to take this demo and use the techniques in a real application or framework.
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Ever since Google App Engine (GAE) supported Java, it has opened a slew of other languages that GAE indirectly and unofficially supports. PHP is one of them through Quercus, our 100% Java clean-room implementation of the PHP language.

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