Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO From: Zak Greant (zak <email protected>)
Date: 10/12/00

At 03:28 PM 10/12/00 -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>Quoting Sebastian Bergmann <sb <email protected>>:
>
> > In PEAR we have XML::RPC, but I haven't tested it so far. But it looks
> > somewhat confusing to me and it appears to be a quick hack to PEARify the
> > original PHP implementation of XMLRPC. I believe one could make the code
> > much leaner and nicer :-) Maybe that one'll be me, if I find the time.
>
>Great!
>
> > Bernd Römer is currently building an Application Server framework in
> > native PHP but native support would be better somewhat, I believe.
>
>Could someone define what an application server is? I hear it all the time
>these days, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to provide for me...

Personally, I have no idea - it is a term that seems to be applied
differently by everyone. It seems like the whole OO buzz of a few years
ago - everything had an OO-based architecture... in the end, it all meant
very little.

IMHO PHP easily qualifies as an application server - but so would almost
any of the web scripting languages...

Here is what someone who seems to be paying attention has to say about them:

http://webreview.com/wr/pub/sections/appserver/index2.html

  --zak 

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