Re: REST, SOAP or XML-RPC?

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:00 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > Presumably one can choose to install only some of the options. > > Of course, now you're into the wonderful land of module > dependencies... Good luck! > Module dependencies are sorted out by the framework already. We have modelled our dependency issues around debian's aptitude, although in text/php... > REST should be fine. > > You should perhaps design it modularly enough that swapping in SOAP or > RPC would not be too difficult. > Yes, I think that that would probably be wise. Most of our code is designed in this way anyway, like we have 3 different WYSIWYG editor choices as well... > I don't think you'll need FTP in PHP... > > Your client code can just download with fopen/fread, same as it > already is doing the tar.gz files... > > You're more likely to be bitten by hosts turning off allow_url_fopen > though. Oh yeah, forgot about that one! > I believe REST is the most light-weight bandwidth of the REST/SOAP/RPC > crowd... I believe so too. I am taking a look at hacking around with the PEAR channel server code. --Paul