WebSphere sMash
PHP/Groovy Bridge
Rob Nicholson Ant Phillips
rob_nicholson@uk.ibm.com antphill@uk.ibm.com

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Compiling Scripts
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Importing Classes
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Method and Field Access
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Calling Meta Objects
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Calling Meta Objects
Meta objects enable dynamic
behavior to be defined at runtime
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Calling Meta Objects
Meta objects enable dynamic
behavior to be defined at runtime
The Groovy bridge can dispatch to Groovy meta
objects and so avoids messy calls to
invokeMethod() and get/setProperty()
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Meta Objects COM/.NET
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Meta Objects COM/.NET
ActiveXObject automatically imported if
the Scriptom libraries are available
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Meta Objects COM/.NET
ActiveXObject automatically imported if
the Scriptom libraries are available
Calls to the COM/.NET library are routed
through Scriptom and into JACOB
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Meta Objects COM/.NET
ActiveXObject automatically imported if
the Scriptom libraries are available
Calls to the COM/.NET library are routed
through Scriptom and into JACOB
Integration with PHP iteration if the COM
component supports enumeration
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Range
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Range Range objects are a
nice feature of Groovy
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Range Range objects are a
nice feature of Groovy
Dynamic evaluation of Groovy script
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Range Range objects are a
nice feature of Groovy
Dynamic evaluation of Groovy script
Range objects support iteration
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

IBM Software Group | WebSphere software
Groovy Bridge – Range Range objects are a
nice feature of Groovy
Dynamic evaluation of Groovy script
Range objects support iteration
Range implementations built
into the PHP runtime
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – Closures and Curry
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Groovy Bridge – More Closures
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge

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Summary
Integrates PHP and Groovy in WebSphere sMash
– Importing Groovy classes into PHP runtime
– Invoking methods and accessing fields on Groovy objects
– Interactions with Groovy meta objects
– Closures and currying
All the examples start with a PHP script and call into Groovy
– JSR-223 implementation will enable Java/Groovy to call PHP
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WebSphere sMash PHP/Groovy Bridge