Make PHP execute and communicate with a Java application on a web server

Question

I have a java application that will take the image as an input and output another image. I have a website with a popular host (PHP+MYSQL Hosting). I want to create a page on

Answer 1

I think your best bet here is with your java app running as cron(or a deamon) that can load the file details from the database. This will require a (one or more) page-refresh on the users part after the generation is complete, at which point your script can recall the image from the database/filesystem.

I do not think you will be able to do this in real-time due to timeout restrictions on the PHP webpage. However, you could write a java applet that can take the file and process it before sending it to the server (or depending on how you intend to use it, perhaps you do not need to upload it after the transformation?).