Re: [mh] MisterHouse Revised - Code Snippets - Part 1

[David H. L. Jr. <dh...@dl...>]

David Norwood wrote:
> Do you guys have an opinion about JSON and JSON-RPC?  I am just
> learning about this stuff, but I saw this thread about adding SOAP
> support to dojo (a javascript toolkit):
>  
> http://dojotoolkit.org/pipermail/dojo-interest/2006-May/008062.html
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> Things I take away from this discussion:
>  
> JSON takes much less network bandwidth than SOAP or XML.  
>  
> Dojo currently only supports JSON and JSON-RPC because SOAP and
> XML-RPC are much more complicated. 
    XML-RPC is not particularly complicated - just not easy on bandwidth.
    The implication I got from reading about JSON was that it was fairly
similar to XML-RPC just not using XML over the net.
   
    The other forte it seemed to have was supporting Javascript clients.
I am sure someone has done XML-RPC clients in Javascript - though it
probably was alot of fun.
    Trying to do SOAP, CORBA, .... in JavaScript would be a pretty good
demonstration of exactly what is wrong with SOAP, CORBA, ....

>  
> SOAP or XML-RPC can be converted to/from JSON-RPC on the server.  
>  
> Which leads me to these questions:
>  
> Are there javascript toolkits that make SOAP and XML-RPC easier to
> deal with?  Does it make sense for Misterhouse to support JSON due to
> its lighter weight?  If so, should it support JSON-RPC directly or
> through a converter? 
    I am guessing, but I suspect JSON may be getting driven by AJAX.
AJAX is in essence another RPC vehicle of sorts - or atleast is badly in
need of something like that.

    I am only familiar with the AJAX concepts - not actual use. But some
Web Development frameworks - Ruby on Rails, and Jiffty (more Perlish).
Basically use AJAX as a means to automatically and transparently create
a client/server RPC system for Web Based apps created inside their
framework.


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> David
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