php Project with java

Our Web Project first was written in PHP, but after that time we have sub projects which were written in Java. now we have some data to exchange.

$url = 'http://hr.sankuai.com/mtorg/org/api/mischange?start='. $stime. '&end='. $t. '&token='. $token;

    $ch = curl_init($url);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);

    $content = curl_exec($ch);

Now we always do like this. Such as java have a service, then PHP wants to visit the service, then we will call curl function.

We always do like this. I think it's very ugly. Do you have some experience where a project mix with java and php. How can you do when you php want to visit you java service. Or you java project want to visit the php service. Does thrift can solve This problem? Thank you~