On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:36:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course, CORBA has actually been quite formally standardized, suffers > from many fairly interoperable implementations, and is rather a lot less > bloated than any of the XML-based schemes. It might be worth trying, > too...
The ability to use the HTTP transport has it's advantages with web services-- You can throw something together with a few lines of PHP, you don't have to worry about how to activate objects, I've never been able to figure out how to handle transport-layer security and authentication with CORBA (of course, this was all fairly new stuff when I was working with it), all this stuff comes for free with the HTTP transport. I like CORBA, though, and I'd probably find a CORBA module useful, but it doesn't solve all the same problems. Hrm, I wonder if the overhead of XML-RPC wouldn't be too bad for the new PostgreSQL protocol... it probably would, but it would be entirely useful. You can make XML-RPC calls from mozilla javascript, so you could do some pretty sweet tweaking to keep your addresses in a pgsql database. As an "additional" protocol which postmaster can listen to it would rule. I'm making a habit of putting all the business logic into stored procedures, and this would basically publish the business logic in a very useful way. -Jason ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
