On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > XML-RPC is a standalone system (except for the Java-Apache extension). If > you need to run your webservices system on port 80, for firewalling issues > for instance, you can't also run Apache. That's not ideal. With > mod_perlservice, you can host RPC webservices AND webpages all on one > server! Wow. > > ... > > Also mod_perlservice's configuration system allows you to host MANY RPC > applications on a single Apache server. Try hosting 25 different remote > apps using XML-RPC; there is no native functionality that enables XML-RPC > to accomplish such feats.
How about SOAP? I'm sure the problem you identify with XML-RPC don't apply to SOAP. I've created SOAP apps which share space with web-apps and offer multiple modules in a single server. > Well, why not just use mod_perl? > > Well that's a silly question. mod_perlservice is an RPC system, not a CGI > system. You just lost me. Clearly mod_perl is not a CGI system. It's a Perl binding to (nearly) all of Apache, of which an emulated CGI environment is just a small piece. > mod_perl CGI doesn't provide support for marshaling and unmarshaling > aggregates; try passing an array of hashes of arrays of integers > efficiently using CGI, it's improbable. Application functionality like marshaling and unmarshaling can be added by modules on top of mod_perl. Take SOAP::Lite, for example. > It's all Free and GPL. It was developed by me and I decided to share it > with all of you. I don't understand why some of you might snark at my > work. If you'd ever launched a GPL project of your own, I believe you'd > stop short of criticizing before you know the whole story. I've spent > hundreds of hours contributing something useful to the community that I've > received so much from. Every submission should be welcomed. I'm sorry your feelings were hurt. The free software world has never been a very friendly place. I suppose the best we can hope for is that every project is judged fairly on its merits. -sam -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
