Re: [PEPr] Comment on PHP::PHPRPC

On 8 Sep 2007 16:51:39 -0000, Sérgio Carvalho <sergiosgc@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sérgio Carvalho (http://pear.php.net/user/sergiosgc) has commented on the proposal for > PHP::PHPRPC. > > Comment: > > Is there a real need for a non-standard RPC protocol? PEAR already provides > XML-RPC and SOAP implementations. I believe even REST is supported, along > with JSON serialization. The only advantage I can imagine is performance, > but serialization is a small part of the load introduced by a remote > protocol. I must say I am not strictly against the idea because many webservices offer serialized data (aka "PHP format"), but I am not sure if this really justifies its own implementation. But if it's easy and people want to use it I wouldn't object to it. ;-) Though, I'd rather see this package use XML_RPC2 and so on, instead of duplicating code. Sidenote - a HTTP_REST_CLIENT package for PEAR is being worked on. Cheers, Till