PHP code to access API of a Java library

Question

I need to use the Java-based OpenNLP library in my PHP code. For example, I need to use its Sentence Detector component (en-sent.bin) for analysing text variables in my PHP code.

In its documentation, that API can be accessed from a Java code as follows:

InputStream modelIn = new FileInputStream("en-sent.bin");

try {
  SentenceModel model = new SentenceModel(modelIn);
}
catch (IOException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
  if (modelIn != null) {
    try {
      modelIn.close();
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
    }
  }
}

How can do the same thing in PHP?

In other words, what is the PHP-equivalent to the above Java code?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '14 at 22:30

The solution I'm about to implement is writing a java based backend (because just the OpenNLP tool's output just won't cut it) and using PHP's execute function to run it. If you want it to be even faster, I suggest making it a daemon, making PHP connect to it and send it data to return (it'd probably be a unix socket). Although it's kinda complex, it seems less error prone than a PHP/Java Bridge.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 13:58

There would have to be a PHP API for accessing OpenNLP. A quick search doesn't show anything. The only other thing I can think of is using a PHP/Java Bridge of some sort, but that's more involved. See http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/, for example.

PHP code to access API of a Java library

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