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

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Bas A.Schulte wrote:

> 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.

Then just deliver plain XML.

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