PHP and (not) CORBA
There is a lot of talk about PHP in the enterprise nowadays – which is very good. I have been using PHP 5 for integration at Vodafone Sweden for almost a year now. The solution wraps a – rather obscure – legacy C API in a PHP 5 module and hides all this behind a generic SOAP interface implemented with the help of ext/soap. The interface automatically translates SOAP requests from other systems (for example WebMethods) into the API calls the legacy system can understand. This works great, even though I initially had some problems with .NET systems, and is now running many many transactions 24/7.
So even if better SOAP support and a more thought out database layer in PDO are both helping PHP in the enterprise world I still miss one extension to really help me attack java based web applications. A good CORBA extension. I just saw that Iona have started a new CORBA community and a quick search there for PHP came up with nothing.
There have been a couple of tests in this area with the old Satellite PHP extension and then the Universe PHP extension. These were really only good as showcases. Are there any good examples of PHP and CORBA out there? It would be really interesting to see if anyone have used for example ORBit, ORBacus or Iona Orbix for C++. Please send me an email if you know something I don’t!
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