Let's say I want to write a new tool to do something to, or report on people in a database. Each tool is going to have to have all sorts of routines that know about the relationship between the data. The first thought is to write a library of routines that do things like, change_address(), or fire_employee() or whatever.
Whoops, now we've decided to move to python. I have to write all of that again. So I thought, shouldn't there be a cloud that sits in front of the database to which I can ask these services of? Some process that awaits requests for information, or handles new incoming data. Now new apps written in any language should be able to use a basic protocol in order to get the work done. The question then, is what the best way to do this is. First I thought of using cherrypy to sit and listen to POST requests, but this would make passing complex structures extremely inconvenient. Then I thought about WSDL. Would this be the next logical step, or is this more for allowing different companies to communicate with each other when there needs to be a broadcast description of the interface? If it is to be WSDL, what is a good place to get concise information as to how to set this up? It would be written in python. Thanks, Tobiah -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
