I have been using perl SOAP for a while now and really like the simplicity compared to other toolkits. I have a project, however, where I need to use a third party java library (.jar) to do work backend work. I was thinking of using Inline.pm to run the java code, and then have this perl wrapper also manage the SOAP interface, calling into the java when necessary. The java is actually going to run a subshelled compiled C program... This may be a vague question, but I will ask it anyway. Does anyone have experience using perl in this way, in other words, to manage a java interpreter in a program which will sit as a daemon for long periods of time? Are there tricks I can use to minimize startup time of the java interpreter? Is this generally a bad idea? For example, my code will likely do something as follows: run the perl program, bring up the SOAP server, wait for a command; upon a start command, start the JVM and execute until the stop command is processed. Any thoughts?
Thx, Chris
