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

> 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?

For one thing, it would be slower.  Storable is the fastest way to
serialize perl data, bar none.  That slowdown might get lost in the
overall slowness of doing network operations, but if you do multiple RPC
calls per request it could add up.

- Perrin