> Care to explain? Why not use SOAP to allow access to a service (that is > now being accessed using HTTP and Storable for (de-)serialization) and > allow access to the services using non-perl languages?
For one thing, it would be slower. Storable is the fastest way to serialize perl data, bar none. That slowdown might get lost in the overall slowness of doing network operations, but if you do multiple RPC calls per request it could add up. - Perrin
