Dobedani _ wrote: > > Hi there, > > So far I am using ASP under M$ IIS - mostly with VBScript. I however see many >advantages in using PerlScript, e.g. the fact that with Apache::ASP my ASP web >applications will then become cross-platform. > > Under IIS I tend to build ActiveX DLL's (e.g. with Delphi), which I invoke from my >script: $Server->CreateObject(ProgID) etc. I usu. make sure that MTS can manage these >objects. I understand that in a way it is also possible to use $Server->CreateObject >in a Apache::ASP script running under Windows. However, on other platforms, there >seems to be no such possibility. Are features like this planned for a future release? > > I am particularly interested to learn more about planned features for Linux. I guess >the ActiveX DLL will have to be replaced by a shared object (built with e.g. Kylix?) >and the COM / DCOM protocol may have to be replaced by CORBA or so. And what about >Java servlets? I understand that Instant ASP from HalcyonSoft offers the possibility >to invoke these with Server.CreateObject (using VBScript alas). TIA >
If there is ever a free open source port of COM/DCOM, and there exists a perl interface to it, it would be easy to integrate for $Server->CreateObject() under unix. There are no such plans on the table however. Until then, for greatest cross platform compatibility, I would stay away from ActiveX, relying solely on perl objects to do your encapsulated work ... also instead of using ADO for db access, you can use perl's DBI. If you are not familiar with CPAN, I would suggest you become so. One of perl's virtues is CPAN, which contains the collected work of some 1700+ authors: http://www.cpan.org/ --Josh _________________________________________________________________ Joshua Chamas Chamas Enterprises Inc. NodeWorks Founder Huntington Beach, CA USA http://www.nodeworks.com 1-714-625-4051 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
