Many might consider even the thought of running PHP inside of a Java Virtual Machine to be anathema. Others will wonder why bother (apart from the novelty). However running PHP in Java has one crucal benefit: it future-proofs your code.

Quercus is a nifty utility that will allow you to run PHP code in clouds such as Google App Engine1. This means your Drupal and Wordpress sites can now be distributed across a highly avaliable and scalable cloud infrustructure.

Now if we can only get an MVC framework like Kohana or Symfony to work on top of this system..

  1. Other great articles on running PHP in Google’s App Engine can be found here and here. IBM has also highlighted this utility. [↩]
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