Hi All-
Yes, for raw data exchange b/w scripting languages WDDX is great.
SOAP will be a lot better (and our preferred model) for
exchanging/using/remoting web programming interfaces.
With Greylock (the new COAPI in CF), we've moved away from storing content
objects in WDDX -- we use standard relational models, but will offer you the
choice to externalize those objects in standard XML, which you could then
either a) ship over the network to someone/thing, or b) process with XSLT.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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From: Maddison, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XML WDDX - whats is its future?
WDDX is cool, as I'm sure lots of us have used it to great advantage. I too
was a Spectra programmer, and I agree that it was an excellent model for web
development.
The problem with WDDX and especially with Spectra, was that to use the XML
you have to read in the WDDX, deserialise it to a program construct and then
run CFML against the construct to build the resulting page.
If on the other hand you build your own XML vocabulary, you can very easily
use techologies such as XSL to transform the content object. Since WDDX was
built to serialise programing structures, it would be very difficult to
apply an XSL to it.
On the other hand WDDX is excellent if you want to do such things as
serialise structures, etc, to a file for future use, or if you just want to
pass a programming structure from one machine to the other. I use it all
the time to pass queries between servers.
In short I see a future for both technologies. In my mind, although they
both use XML, they are both usefull in different areas.
Dave Maddison
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 25 July 2001 14:27
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [cf-xml] XML WDDX - whats is its future?
>>
>>
>> Hey.
>>
>> After a little thread I have just had recently with one of
>> the lists members
>> offline I was wondering what everyone thought or had any
>> insight on the
>> future/development of WDDX?
>>
>> Personally I love it and embraced Spectra, probably the
>> largest app to be
>> using it from the outset as I think (performace aside) that
>> it is still the
>> best model for a web application to be built - with regards
>> to Re-Useable
>> database schema, and the Spectrum of participants et al.
>>
>> R.I.P Spectra as we know it, but from the outset I think it
>> should have been
>> given away free (I know it cost a lot to develop as a
>> framework with CF and
>> it could have united a community of developers in the way
>> Fusebox has done
>> and gained quite a substantial market share.
>>
>> With the integration of the COAPI into Neo where will the
>> role of WDDX lie?
>>
>> Wonder if anyone has any thought on this or has anyone like me been
>> developing for WDDX?
>>
>>
>>
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