> Funny that, I was looking at replacing the WebServer for our local > implementation so that I could split off a particular class of HTTP > request. > > The problem with relying entirely on a servlet engine is one of > speed (mentioned already), but also of dependencies. The current > xml-rpc package is quite small and is self-contained. Requiring > a servlet implementation means that an application that uses > xml-rpc must embed and distribute a servlet engine, be > embedded in a servlet engine, or distributed as a WAR or similar. > > I haven't seen a servlet engine that is as simple to embed as > the WebServer (although I would like to be wrong). I think that > people embedding XML-RPC functionality in their applications may > also be concerned about losing control over how threads and > synchronicity are managed.
Agree entirely - Jetty is very good, but would be a fairly substantial addition to the xml/rpc distribution both in size and in having more to understand and configure. In an OSGi environment that's fine - there's a standard HttpService, which for us happens to be Jetty, so we piggyback of this existing infrastructure. > It seems to me that the current XmlRpcServer does a good job > of handling threads in normal operation (without a servlet > engine out front). If the Worker was split out, and passed > an extra callback interface to handle the URI -> object mapping, > then it would be easy to embed XML-RPC into an arbitary HTTP > implementation without embedding either the XmlRpcServer > or the WebServer. > Totally agree - it's greatest attraction to us was simplicity and light weight. If we wanted bigger more complex infrastructure, we'd probably have gone SOAP or CORBA or somesuch, wrapped into a full blow J2EE server or the likes. My vote would be to keep the current model and show people how they can embed it e.g. as described above. It only took us a couple of hours to figure out the hook-up for servlet use based on the current docs, and we're no experts! -- Rob Walker ------- End of forwarded message ------- SoftSell Business Systems, Ltd. ' testing solutions for a changing world ' +44 (20) 7488 3470 www.softsell.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
