Re: Setup Apache/CGIDEV2 vs private RPG based server

Walden,

For the client side there is now difference.
They will just connect, send the stuff and get a responce.
They will do execatly the same independent of what is on the server.

Regards,
Eduard.

----- Original Message ----
From: Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 11:19:27 AM
Subject: RE: Setup Apache/CGIDEV2 vs private RPG based server


When evaluating the choices also keep in mind the consumer of the
"service." It's going to be much easier from the client to consume a
service from a web-server (Apache) than it will be to code socket-level
communications to a custom socket-listener program... Sure the
web-server approach requires more code on the client side, but all that
code is already written in a class somewhere so calling a service on a
web-server is one or two lines of code, where calling (correctly) a
custom-socket program is more.

I'd go w/Apache w/out a second thought.

-Walden

PS. "service" above means just a page that the other machine calls that
returns a pre-determined dataset, not necessarily a SOA web-service
w/WSDL and all that jazz, although a web-service is the "right" way to
do this.

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