From: "James (ruby-talk)" <ruby@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T22:22:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17999] Re: Movement in scripting language communities to integrate XML-RPC

> 
> James (ruby-talk) wrote:
> <snip />
> > However, I would like to plan for the ability to have different objects
> > written in different languages play well with each other.  PHP, Ruby, Perl,
> > will let me call other scripts using system calls, but this strikes me
> > as really inefficient.  I've been thinking that an XML-RPC interface
> > would be nice, though I don't know that it would grant much in performance.
> 
> You probably gain not much in performance, but it will be more flexible.
> You might have a look at Sandstorm: http://sstorm.sourceforge.net
> It's a component architecture based on XML-RPC. Currently supported languages 
> are Ruby, Perl, Python and PHP.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Michael
> 

Thanks!  I'll do that.