From the folks over at php|architect this morning, there's a pointer to an interview with John Coggeshall himself about Interfacing PHP with Java Objects.

Have you ever started writing a Web application in PHP only to come across a problem so difficult to overcome that it makes you wonder if you should have used another language? While some developers would just give up and start over with a new language, and still others would grin and bear it, hoping to write enough code to eventually find their way out of such a hole, developer John Coggeshall has a better solution: he integrates Java right into his PHP scripts.

The interviewer continues on, asking John about the benefits of Java within PHP, an example of doing so, and what versions of PHP will support it. There's really not that much more to this interview, but it's good to see that the PHP community is becoming more and more aware about interfacing outside objects/languages to get the job done most efficiently.