Stephen Adkins writes: > There are going to be an increasing number of cases where > the P5EE needs a core server, separate from the web server. > (Similar in some respects to how an EJB server is separate > from the web server in which Servlets run.)
I think the reliability/flexibility/security of Apache/mod_perl is hard to beat. We initially had separate servers in bOP, and we through them out in favor of using Apache for all RPC. We marshall requests to mulitpart/form-data, so we get maximum reuse. However, you might consider SOAP if you want more complexity. Remember that adding a new component type, adds complexity. The users need to learn how to configure it. They also need to design new to understand the difference between the "old way" and the "new way" when implementing components. The server itself is a management problem (start up order and other process management issues). Rob
