Eric, We have a news service that uses WDDX and current have PHP, CF, ASP, Perl and (lots of) Java customers. The biggest question is "what's your goal?". If all your goals are internal (providing data to your own aps), then the question is time and money. If you have plenty of both, then you may consider each platforms specific needs to connect to the XML Store. If it's ease of implimentation, or if you are providing the data to external customers, then using XML and HTTP is in many ways an ideal solution that requires less development time. As far as overhead, hardware, bandwidth etc. all come in to play - but we have found hardware cheaper than development time <g>. Actually, you can do a lot within your application code to make it efficient and we have found the overhead to be a non-factor (so far - crossing our fingers).
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF - Molular Services with XML. We're trying to steamline how people request the same information used accross multiple allications. Let's say I have a news database that's used in 20 different web applications (JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, whatever). I was thinking of using XML to provide a Launchpad to easily get the same data (like content subscription). We want to write CF scripts that will server out this data based on URL flags provided by the user. I have a few questions about this... Is HTTP the most common way to transfer XML between web applications? Does that require a lot of overhead or affect performance? Am I reinventing the wheel? Should each application talk to databases or XML feeds (that talk to databases)? I'm adding an extra step with XML, right? I imagine the answer to a lot of these is "it depends on your needs". Regardless, I'd love to hear any suggestions on how (and if) to take this approah. Any tips on architecting this type of information service would be greatly appreciated. Am I going ".NET" with this? ;) Thanks a bunch :) EC ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
