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

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Bas A.Schulte wrote:

> Matt,
>
> On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 12:14 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > Personally I think you'd be a fool to migrate an
> > elegantly designed application like that to SOAP.
>
> Care to explain? Why not use SOAP to allow access to a service (that is
> now being accessed using HTTP and Storable for (de-)serialization) and
> allow access to the services using non-perl languages?

Provide access in XML, but not via SOAP. It's hard to explain in a short
email, so I recommend reading the recent articles on XML.com about "The
Future of Web Services" and "REST".

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