Hi Ric, > > I use mod_perl/apache/soap::lite to create an internal > "application server" > so that I can distribute processing load from the public > webserver. This > also allows me to expose a soap web service to the public if > I wished to > give them direct access to a method on this application server, but of > course they would need a soap client to access this service. > > Do you want to just return an xml to your user, or do you > want to do what I > do which is do internal RPC using SOAP.
in my opinion a web service has another great benefit - you can sperate the logic and the front ends. we have here an application running on php/html, and all the logic is inside this scripts, in case of running on another medium/language (like flash or php for plain html) you must copy all the logic - you can call this a nightmare. in this case i think that a solution provides with PRC/SOAP is a good idea, but on every article i read more, i realize that this technology is still young and just experimental (e.g. php 4.x). bart
