[Pdx-pm] soap/perl/java

[Austin Schutz]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Chris Dawson wrote:
> 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?
> 

	This is probably more work, slower, and less reliable than using java
soap tools with a java web engine like apache axis.
	If you want perl too, maybe run two webservers on the same box,
and write glue code where you need to integrate java <-> perl.

	*shrug* that's the road I would probably follow.

	Austin