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> Anyway, hope you all enjoy, and please.. be gently
> this is my first time... at letting the masses laugh
> at my code :)
caveat: I didn't read it all properly, much less actually run it.
I just remembered the other reason why I hate Apache::Session - it doesn't
play nicely with other languages.
Low level elements of sites should be language independant. It is REALLY
NICE to be able to do parts of your site in Perl and parts in Java and parts
in something else and be able to have them all share things like session
information. This is really very easy if you can express yourself well in
simple name-value pairs.
It gets harder when you are lazy (aka efficient) and just serialize big
chunky data structures and shove them somewhere for later use. Anyone know
of language independant serialization mechanisms?
But, there must be some nice way of using XML for similar purposes. If the
shopping basket was described in XML, then it would be easy to write a Java
servlet that could also manipulate the same shopping basket.
But I suppose that wasn't one of the design criteria :-)
