On DotVoid.com today, there's this look at PHP in the enterprise and one thing he really thinks is missing - a CORBA extension.

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. 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.

Despite their being a new CORBA community, he says that so far, there's just not much out there for PHP. The two pieces of software that he did find (the Satellite PHP extension and the drop him a line...