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ionrock
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I just read through the SOAP and XML-RPC comparison to phpBeans and I wanted to be sure I understood things correctly. From the sound it, phpBeans is a means of tieing multiple servers and clients together in order to provide an application. My confusion has to do with the comparison to SOAP which in similar in the sense that it is a protocol to communicate with Web Services, but differs in purpose in that SOAP's primary goal is for interoperability. By the way, this is not a criticism, just an observation.
It sounds like phpBeans allows for an easy way to make a web application in php that spans multiple servers and allows for greater scalability by having the phpBeans protocol for communicating objects between clients and servers. phpBeans is not meant to provide a web service type infrastructure where clients from other organizations can easily use the objects no matter their platform. Right? It just seems a comparison to SOAP is not necessarily the most appropriate IMO.
In any sense I think this is a great project and I will be paying attention to closely.
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lux
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ionrock said:
I just read through the SOAP and XML-RPC comparison to phpBeans and I wanted to be sure I understood things correctly. From the sound it, phpBeans is a means of tieing multiple servers and clients together in order to provide an application. My confusion has to do with the comparison to SOAP which in similar in the sense that it is a protocol to communicate with Web Services, but differs in purpose in that SOAP's primary goal is for interoperability. By the way, this is not a criticism, just an observation.
This is exactly correct. SOAP is great for getting different systems (possibly with different owners) talking to one another smoothly. But for internal uses it falls short, since it's a rather demanding format for conducting RPC, so it would harm the performance of the system more than it would help in such cases.
ionrock said:
It sounds like phpBeans allows for an easy way to make a web application in php that spans multiple servers and allows for greater scalability by having the phpBeans protocol for communicating objects between clients and servers. phpBeans is not meant to provide a web service type infrastructure where clients from other organizations can easily use the objects no matter their platform. Right? It just seems a comparison to SOAP is not necessarily the most appropriate IMO.
In any sense I think this is a great project and I will be paying attention to closely.
Glad you like it!
The reason for the SOAP comparison is because I figured it's what people would compare it to most often. I'm also working on another comparison of phpBeans with Java RMI and Corba, since those are really the standards it most closely resembles.
Cheers,
Lux
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