On Thursday 11 December 2003 5:06 am, Robin Berjon wrote: > S Woodside wrote: > > What's a U-shaped pipeline? > > It's a pipeline that has a sub-pipeline that processes the incoming > data, and another that processes the outgoing data. It's a nice way of > implementing parts of DAV, or Web Services.
I think you could consider it like this: Hmmm, I'd only like to deal with XML literal input Grrrr, I get all these stupid url encoded forms, some SOAP requests, some XML-RPC requests, and a few gets... Ahhh, OK, wouldn't it be nice if I could create an INPUT PIPELINE that specified how to transform all of these things into some single type of data (literal XML, whatever), which then IS my 'content' for the outgoing pipeline. It really just becomes a more modular way of composing services. Now with Apache 2 we should be able to extend that to arbitrary NETWORK layer protocols, hmmm <evil grin> -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain http://www.giantelectronicbrain.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
