Over on the PHPKitchen this morning, there's an interesting note about a teamup that Sun and Zend are doing to try to promote a "Java Specification Request".

According to this information, this new "Java Specification Request" will allow anyone to write portable Java classes that can be invoked from a page written in any scripting language, with PHP serving as the reference scripting language implementation. It will include details on security, resources and class loader contexts.

This could lead to all sorts of Java/PHP integration, using Java objects where needed, and open all news doors for interoperability between applications. The real PR announcement from Zend can be found here.