Issac, On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 11:01 AM, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> Bas A.Schulte wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been meaning to write an article about how I used Apache/mod_perl >> to implement a mobile SMS application platform as it demonstrates use >> of Apache/mod_perl outside the Web realm, something I hadn't seen so >> far. Time constraints (as always) have prevented me from doing this >> properly, however, I'll try to give a short description of the system. >> >> The goal kinda is to see if others are using Apache/mod_perl in a >> similar way to share experiences, discuss issues that arise or discuss >> alternatives (I'd love someone to tell me I'm an idiot for handling >> all this lowlevel stuff myself and move to J2EE/java at once, if he >> can convince me I could have implemented this with the same budget and >> time frame). >> > [snip] > > I actually implemented a similar system, although it's not SMS > specific. Basically, I have a central system in Apache/mod_perl. The > eventual design is for full I/O in many protocols, including HTTP, > SMTP, FTP and a handful of other protocols. Well, this proves again that everything we software developers do has been done umteen times before ;) The system I described actually isn't tied to SMS as well; it has been designed with other devices in mind as well. The virtual SMSC component as I described it really should have a better name as it really is a protocal handler and serializing/deserializing component that is capable of handling other protocol and formats. In fact, I am considering enhancing it to be able to use it in a WAP or i-Mode context (if we can only find a way to get paid by the mobile subscriber using WAP which is easy with SMS). > So far the output is pretty much ready, and I think I'm going to wait > for Apache 2 before I do the inputs. I _could_ write mod_perl handlers > to understand other protocols, but Apache 2 is being designed around > this, as far as I understand, so I'm going to do that around Apache 2 > (as soon as I get off my ass and learn the new API :-)) Yep; Apache 2 combined with mod_perl sure sounds interesting, now if it only had the stability that 1.x has ;) Regards, Bas.
