PHP enters a new era with a stable release of appserver.io. After nearly two years of development, TechDivision GmbH finally released appserver.io 1.0.0, the first real PHP Application Server, fully written in PHP, that supports multi-threading out-of-the-box and is completely open source.
appserver.io enters the stage as a fully featured infrastructure solution that replaces the "A" and pulls the 3rd party tools out of the LAMP stack. Based on a fast and rock solid HTTP/1.1 compliant web server written in PHP as the first layer, appserver.io provides a Persistence-Container and a Servlet-Engine as a second layer. Finally, a Message-Queue and a Timer-Service that makes heavy use of the Persistence-Container functionality build the last layer. These completely stateful services are bundled with functionalities like AOP, Dependency-Injection, Design-by-Contract, and Annotations.
Developers do not need other programming skills as all functionality is completely written in PHP. This fact will dramatically lower the barriers and enables PHP developers using appserver.io instantly.
You can use appserver.io with your existing applications like Drupal, Magento or Wordpress and benefit from the performance and additional opportunities of appserver.io.
The most powerful Open Source PHP infrastructure comes with the following features together in one bundle:
A fully HTTP/1.1 compliant webserver that can process requests over HTTP, as well as HTTPS. An
Easy to use rewrite engine that is completely compatible to Apache rewrites.
A Servlet Engine that provides a web container enabling developers to load applications and objects in memory. A Message Queue that provides services enabling developers to process messages asynchronously. A Timer Service enabling the execution of methods at a determined point in time. Finally the Persistence Container is enabling developers to hold objects, so-called beans, in memory.
In order to gain benefits for existing PHP platforms, I'd need to rewrite the whole core. For new custom PHP platforms, I'd have to rely one (!) companies experimental work, while instead I could use highly sophisticated open source software that is supported by hundreds of developers worldwide (Gearman, RabbitMQ, you name it...)
I don't know, why you want to rewrite the whole PHP core? As far as i know, with PHP 7, a bunch of brilliant guys are working on it, right now! Nobody has to rely on one companies work, because this is an Open Source project and all developers out of the PHP universe can be a part of it. When you talk about hundreds of developers that support Gearman, RabbitMQ ... so this project, as of its PHP nature, has the potential to be supported by millions of PHP developers out there ;)
I was speaking of rewriting the core of existing PHP platforms (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Magento) not PHP itself. To gain benefits, that could be offered by this product, a whole lot of modifications would need to happen. So not only as a responsible dev but also from a mangers point of view, it'd be risky to rely on an experimental work instead of a variety of tools that can offer me same if not more (Gearman / RabbitMQ: use nodejs for faster image processing, java for stable PDF rendering, what so ever).
Furthermore this seems to be a company's product instead of a foundations joint work. We all know that every company has a certain monetary interest in the things they produce. At some point they might want to monetize the product or parts of it and boom - you're screwed. Sitting right there in the vendor lock. And at that point it doesn't even matter if it's "open source". I don't trust these guys.
we do not try to replicate Java, just reuse some of the concepts and make them usable in the PHP world.
appserver.io is open source too, have a look here https://github.com/appserver-io/appserver
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