Re: [Dynapi-Help] Simple communication questions...

[William A. <wi...@25...>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0400, Leif W wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Raymond Irving" <xw...@ya...>
> To: <dyn...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Simple communication questions...
> 
> Not so simple afterall I guess.  :-)  Good thing we had this discussion, lot
> of good things coming out of it.
> 
> > We don't need Java or a plugin on the browser. All
> > that we need is JavaScript. That all that there is to
> > it. nothing more nothing less :)
> 
> You're going to need some server side scripting, right?  That may be true if
> you're running on an IIS server with ASP with JScript support.  But for
> Apache, you're going to need other languages like Perl, PHP, Java, TCL, C,
> C++, etc.  I'll help where I can of course, and if there's any other's out
> there by all means lend a hand.  :)
> 
> > Trust me I believe it all posible only it I can find
> > the time to get started.
> 
> Any way we can adopt any of the work that was already done with the Pushlet
> project, and just port it over to different languages?  Even if we just
> started with the object model and designed our code after that, or
> something.  Just not to reinvent the wheel if possible.
> 
> Leif

I'm jumping in a little late in the game, but there must be a dozen
different tiny protocols to bind JavaScript to CGI. Ironically, for every
other feasible language combination there are exactly two; namely XML-RPC
and SOAP.

XML-RPC should be light enough, and there are several JavaScript libraries
already out in the wild. And of course, you then basically get Perl, PHP,
Python, Ruby, Java, ASP, C, C++, C# et al on the server-side for free,
because XML-RPC is a widely implemented standard.

Here is a list of XML-RPC implementations:

	http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations

There are at least 2 extant JavaScript implementations listed.

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