Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO
| From: | Zak Greant | Date: | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:44:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO | ||
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At 03:28 PM 10/12/00 -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
Quoting Sebastian Bergmann <sb@phpopentracker.de>: In PEAR we have XML::RPC, but I haven't tested it so far. But it looks somewhat confusing to me and it appears to be a quick hack to PEARify the original PHP implementation of XMLRPC. I believe one could make the code much leaner and nicer :-) Maybe that one'll be me, if I find the time. Great! Bernd Römer is currently building an Application Server framework in native PHP but native support would be better somewhat, I believe. Could someone define what an application server is? I hear it all the time these days, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to provide for me...Personally, I have no idea - it is a term that seems to be applied differently by everyone. It seems like the whole OO buzz of a few years ago - everything had an OO-based architecture... in the end, it all meant very little. IMHO PHP easily qualifies as an application server - but so would almost any of the web scripting languages... Here is what someone who seems to be paying attention has to say about them: http://webreview.com/wr/pub/sections/appserver/index2.html --zak