Personally, I don't care. A conf file is a conf file. From the
advocacy standpoint, I think it's probably a smart move on the part of
mod_perl/httpd developers. There is a HUGE value in hyped up techologies with
upper management. I wish I were kidding when I say that in the past I have
seen several managers choose utilities because they have XML configurations (or
some swift GUI, etc.). The product, in four of the six instances, turned out
to be a nightmarish hell that entailed many sleepless nights on the phone with
the Exodus NOCies talking them through how to coach servers back to life
(mod_perl to the rescue!!!).
Anyway, I think this would be pretty groovin' and
would lend itself to a "public friendly" system that would sell better, which,
seems to be mod_perls big problem (IMHO). Programmers are doing the
marketing/advertising, etc... managers, who make the decissions listen to
non-techies (typically) and are going w/ Java.
The question remains then, what
part of the config outside of the httpd.conf could be put into an XML config?
--SC
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > > I'm not trying to belittle Resin in any way -- in fact I'm impressed by
> > > both its design and performance. In learning about Resin during these
> > > tests, I found that JSP is in many ways easier to use than mod_perl. The
> > > smart caching that Resin does (with compiling .java -> .class, etc.) is
> > > effective, and the XML configuration is a joy to deal with compared to
> > > Apache's httpd.conf.
>
> Actually what interests me more about this benchmark (which as you say -
> are starting to get meaningless now anyhow) is the XML configuration. Would
> people prefer to setup mod_perl using some sort of XML configuration,
> because I might be interested in doing this, if there's interest.
>
> Also, what's different between Resin's smart caching and mod_perl's? Is it
> just like StatINC?
>
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