From: Erik Terpstra <erik@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T23:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Perl: tight integration

Maybe you should consider a REST approach:

http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/FrontPage
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/02/06/rest.html
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/02/20/rest.html

It is faster, simpler and more flexible than SOAP and XML-RPC.

Cheers,

    Erik.

Bj�rn Nordb� wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm planning to write a system consisting of a supervise process (which
> I want to write in Ruby) and several transaction processes (written in
> Perl due to library issues). I have spent some time now, looking at Rinn,
> but it doesn't support long long and all in all, it doesn't seem like
> something you'd use for a production system yet.
> 
> Other alternatives seems to be SOAP og XML-RPC; however I am a little
> concerned about the performance of XML based solutions; the supervise
> process needs to scale to about 80 operations/second, with bursts of
> twice that.
> 
> Does anyone have practical experience with the performance of SOAP og
> XML-RPC for Ruby? Or know of viable alternatives?
> 
> All help appreciated!
>