Re: Post about a Apache/mod_perl based component/service architecture

Hi Matt,

On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 12:14 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> The problem with lack of timers and "in the future" events made me 
> switch
> a lot of my server work from mod_perl to POE. Despite your fears about
> cooperative multitasking (yes it's a pain, but there are work-arounds),
> it's a very nice platform to develop for, IMHO.

I assume I should make some time to look at it again soon.

> Also note that what you have created is pretty much a "REST" 
> application.
> See recent XML.com articles on the future of web services for details of
> this design pattern.

I read a good paper on that. I'll look on xml.com for some more.


> Personally I think you'd be a fool to migrate an
> elegantly designed application like that to SOAP.

Well, I don't think what I did is that much different except for the 
format of the 'wire messages'. And I like both WDSL as well as the 
ability to stick in non-perl components (well, "non-perl" could probably 
be replaced by "java" :)).

Regards,

Bas.

ps. Matt: I kinda forgot a 4th component in the system which is an XML 
web publishing component. And guess what... tis AxKit ;) Talks to the 
app. server using the same protocol through an AxKit provider. Or I 
should say: will talk as I haven't built it yet. Sure hope I made the 
right decision by going with AxKit ;)