On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Bas A.Schulte wrote: > Perrin, > > On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 05:45 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > >> 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. > > Point taken. That, and the lack of my hands-on experience with SOAP, led > me to go with Storable. However, SOAP allows me to have more flexibility > in my components, language-wise. For that, I'm willing to trade in > some (!) performance loss.
Then just deliver plain XML. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
