I'll have to put it under consideration.
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Asher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 15:26
Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] XML-RPC and htdig (was Idea on display system)
>
> >Now Geoff has mentioned a framework idea, which is a VERY good idea. I
have
> >been working for an e-commerce company for the last year and a half, one
of
> >the biggest things they have stressed in development of pages is to
separate
> >all your work from your display logic. This gives you the benefit of
being
> >able to easily debug display type problems and being able to have clean
exit
> >routes instead of loading a buffer with partial data and then having to
> >abort due to an exception in the processing to display. An example of
this
> >would be having htsearch return a set of results and in the middle of
> >writing the results out have some form of exception that causes
processing
> >to abort. The client running htsearch would get back partial results and
an
> >error at the end of the page lets say.
> >
> >My work to access the htdig search facilities through CORBA is to allow
my
> >company's software, which has it's own front end processing facility and
> >session management architecture, is to get the results back in a flat
format
> >and then use the front end processing to format the results as needed
(it's
> >based on JavaScript pages) and add session management entries to the
URLs.
>
> Well I know you're in the middle of this and now is probably not the time
> to change courses, but I highly encourage you to switch to XML-RPC
instead,
> or to take a look at my proposal (at http://www.theashergroup.com/demos)
> and design with something like that in mind. Eventually, the choice of
> CORBA or XML-RPC protocols should be a trivial no brainer that you
delegate
> to a higher level "get me a remote service layer", but the advantage of
> XML-RPC over CORBA now is that you'd get your data back in a structured
> manner, very JavaScript friendly, and you'd be opening your site/service
up
> to partners in a relatatively easy to implement manner.
>
> Jerry
>
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