> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 May 2002 13:49
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Perl/COM/DCOM
>
>
> Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 13 May 2002, Rhys Hopkins wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>an application written in perl on another (linux) box. It
> >>>>would still need to talk to the second application via DCOM.
>
>
> > On the other hand, you could always write a local COM gateway on the
> > windows box and convert the message to SOAP or somesuch. YMMV.
>
> I've been playing in a very small way with SOAP and I'm sure I read
> something in passing saying that all (most? some?) DCOM calls
> could be
> readily SOAPified, so in theory this would be possible. MS is pretty
> SOAP friendly anyway, so it may be your best bet for interoperability.
This sounds promising, I will have to look into it, thanks.
>
> However, since Perl is a cross platform language, it should
> be simple to
> move it from Linux to Win32, giving you all the benefits of COM
> integration ;-)
>
...and all the problems inherent with running a 24 hour website on a Win32
platform...??? ( Sorry this is not an option)
>
>
>
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