From: Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr@...>
Date: 2008-05-27T02:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby book for DRb, SOAP and friends

Saji N. Hameed wrote:

>  We are writing a utility to serve and manage geophysical data (mostly
>  climate data).  Currently we use DRb + some data manipulation
>  software. However DRb can only be used between ruby scripts and I
>  understand that SOAP can enable other non-ruby clients to access the
>  services provided by the data server.

Not to sound pedantic, but maybe you should consider implemening a REST 
interface to the data. Implementing it will actually be simpler than a 
SOAP interface and you will probably have fewer interoperability problems.
To my experience (although things are very slowly getting better) SOAP 
implementation tend to bring more problems than your time investment is 
worth.
Just a generic aphorism when put like this, so it looks like a 
flamebait, but honestly it's not.
V.-

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