Recently I was experimenting with running PHP and the H2 database engine in a Java web server using Caucho Quercus (or just Quercus for short). In theory this would yield an ultra portable platform-independent PHP, web server and database stack. I eventually got it working, but with some limitations. Before I get into details, here are some quick notes: Quercus is a 100% Java implementation of PHP5, though it doesn't support 100% of PHP5's functionality, unfortunately. Also, Quercus' implementat [...]