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

Perrin,

On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 05:45 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:

>> 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.

Point taken. That, and the lack of my hands-on experience with SOAP, led 
me to go with Storable. However, SOAP allows me to have more flexibility 
in my components, language-wise. For that, I'm willing to trade in 
some (!) performance loss.

Regards,

Bas.