serialize to web service?

[theartz]

I've seen quite a few systems that serialize java object data to a web service, are there any that are developed in php for the server-side? I would like to build a management app in Java that interacts with an eCommerce site in php, the server can only run php/mysql. I'd rather not write a bunch of custom code, so if there was a way to push data into the database from the php/server end and have java pull objects out ready to go that would work out well I think.

Has anyone seen something like this?

[mrcheeks]

First, I'm not sure than you know or understand what a Web Service is and how it works in general.

You can write a Web Service in Java using JAX-WS, Apache Axis, XML-RPC, etc. and perform whatever you need to do.

[theartz]

I'll try to be more specific. What I'm looking for is something that can take serialized Java objects and store them on a web server that runs php/mysql. It looks like Hibernate is very close, but it is much more complex than I need and it is based on JDBC which I was hoping to avoid in this project.