On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Stephen Adkins wrote: > You seem to advocate Apache/mod_perl for end-user (returning HTML) > and server-to-server (RPC) use. That makes sense. > But it doesn't seem to make sense for my family of servers that > spend all of their time waiting for the mainframe to return their > next transaction.
I think that Rob Nagler has good arguments. With mod_perl you will gain: access control, well known protocol and a well tested architecture. You may want to use XML::Simple to build a simple message protocol... if you don't like synchronous calls, then why not use tokens? You may also consider Stem; I think that someone discussed it here sometime ago. May I ask few questions? Are you also interested in fault tolerance and accuracy of computation? And what about caching? Ciao, Valerio
