From: "Saji N. Hameed" <saji@...21.net>
Date: 2008-05-27T03:03:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby book for DRb, SOAP and friends

* Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr@freemail.gr> [2008-05-27 02:18:34 +0900]:

> 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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>

Thanks for the tip. Being rather a rank beginner in Ruby, words like REST and
SOAP are quite scary. At the moment we will stick to DRb and hope to migrate
to other technologies as time and confidence advances..

any suggestions for learning more about REST(ful) interfaces?

thanks in advance,
saji
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