Drupal Integration with a Struts-based Java Application
Does anyone know if Drupal can be used with a Struts-based Java application? If so, has anyone actually done this and how can it be achieved? Thank you. - Asad
For what definition of "used with"? Drupal is entirely PHP, not Java, so runtime integration is out. (In theory there some sort of huge hack to make PHP talk to Java at runtime, but I've never touched it as the very idea is scary.) You could, however, have a Java app read the Drupal MySQL database and parse out whatever data it needs from it. The vast majority of the data in the database is well-normalized SQL-friendly fields, but you do have to know Drupal's data schema. Really, it depends on what "used with" means. On Friday 16 February 2007 12:34 am, Asad Habib wrote:
Does anyone know if Drupal can be used with a Struts-based Java application? If so, has anyone actually done this and how can it be achieved? Thank you.
- Asad
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for your input Larry. By "used with" I mean that the CMS would be accessed via the Java web application. However, the architecture you mentioned below seems like a more viable solution. I can run Drupal separately from the application and have the application pull from the Drupal MySQL database. This is also a better design since the application is for user and the CMS is for the admin so they really should be separate. - Asad On 2/16/07, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
For what definition of "used with"? Drupal is entirely PHP, not Java, so runtime integration is out. (In theory there some sort of huge hack to make PHP talk to Java at runtime, but I've never touched it as the very idea is scary.) You could, however, have a Java app read the Drupal MySQL database and parse out whatever data it needs from it. The vast majority of the data in the database is well-normalized SQL-friendly fields, but you do have to know Drupal's data schema.
Really, it depends on what "used with" means.
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:34 am, Asad Habib wrote:
Does anyone know if Drupal can be used with a Struts-based Java application? If so, has anyone actually done this and how can it be achieved? Thank you.
- Asad
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
You can run Drupal in java!!! caucho's Quercus is an efficient java implementation of PHP. So you can embed Drupal on your java application server. see http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/tutorial/module/index.xtp Instructions on the Resin wiki (for Drupal 4.7 at least): http://wiki.caucho.com/Quercus:_Drupal I can't remember who posted this elsewhere on the lists, but I got it from another posting. saludos, Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar On 2/16/07, Asad Habib <asadhhabib@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your input Larry. By "used with" I mean that the CMS would be accessed via the Java web application. However, the architecture you mentioned below seems like a more viable solution. I can run Drupal separately from the application and have the application pull from the Drupal MySQL database. This is also a better design since the application is for user and the CMS is for the admin so they really should be separate.
- Asad
On 2/16/07, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
For what definition of "used with"? Drupal is entirely PHP, not Java, so runtime integration is out. (In theory there some sort of huge hack to make PHP talk to Java at runtime, but I've never touched it as the very idea is scary.) You could, however, have a Java app read the Drupal MySQL database and parse out whatever data it needs from it. The vast majority of the data in the database is well-normalized SQL-friendly fields, but you do have to know Drupal's data schema.
Really, it depends on what "used with" means.
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:34 am, Asad Habib wrote:
Does anyone know if Drupal can be used with a Struts-based Java application? If so, has anyone actually done this and how can it be achieved? Thank you.
- Asad
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Or visa versa. We use J2EE applications and oracle enterprise applications to manage data that is included in Drupal. We primarily use REST web services to accomplish this. So we make a web service to provide the data from the J2EE application, and then write php drupal modules to pull information from those rest web services into drupal via http calls. Good luck. ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Asad Habib Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:17 AM To: larry@garfieldtech.com Cc: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Drupal Integration with a Struts-based JavaApplication Thanks for your input Larry. By "used with" I mean that the CMS would be accessed via the Java web application. However, the architecture you mentioned below seems like a more viable solution. I can run Drupal separately from the application and have the application pull from the Drupal MySQL database. This is also a better design since the application is for user and the CMS is for the admin so they really should be separate. - Asad On 2/16/07, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: For what definition of "used with"? Drupal is entirely PHP, not Java, so runtime integration is out. (In theory there some sort of huge hack to make PHP talk to Java at runtime, but I've never touched it as the very idea is scary.) You could, however, have a Java app read the Drupal MySQL database and parse out whatever data it needs from it. The vast majority of the data in the database is well-normalized SQL-friendly fields, but you do have to know Drupal's data schema. Really, it depends on what "used with" means. On Friday 16 February 2007 12:34 am, Asad Habib wrote:
Does anyone know if Drupal can be used with a Struts-based Java application? If so, has anyone actually done this and how can it be achieved? Thank you.
- Asad
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
participants (4)
-
Asad Habib -
Larry Garfield -
Metzler, David -
Victor Kane