Re: how do two PERL programs communicate?

[fmerges]

Hi,

I think is also worth to mention ways to communicate over sockets like XML-RPC, SOAP, Jabber, CORBA, BEEP, and a large of etceteras ;-)

Regards,

[f00li5h]

You want the perl scripts to send oneanother jabber messages when they complete their tasks?

mailer.pl> i'm done, over to you

backend.pl> Ok, great, i'll start on that

mailer.pl> let me know when you're done.

backend> Sure, will do ^_^

Hrm, I smell botnet

[f00li5h]

OK, not helpful, i get the point.

[fmerges]

Hi,

I see you don't have any idea of what Jabber really is!

XMPP is a set of protocols expressed within XML. XMPP provides a structured, extensible framework for exchanging all kinds of information. It provides you with Synchronous, Request/Response, and also Asynchronous Framework. It has Component/Service Architecture. As XML-RPC and SOAP are also XML based, RPC can go through XMPP messages, getting all the benefits that the Jabber server and the XMPP protocols can provide.

And you can also define your own protocol, because there are only a few restricted tags that Jabber uses itself, so there is space for defining something that only process your business logic.

So, I recommend you doing a research first and then write comments...

Ahh, there're also nice books about Jabber, for example:

• Jabber's Developer Handbook
• Programming Jabber

Regards,

[f00li5h]

Well, that Jabber thing sure does sound quite handy indeed

I guess I did the RPC equivilant of saying ``The internet's no use to anyone because it's just HTTP''

*Blush*

. o O { perhaps next time I'll keep my ill-informed smart-alec comments to myself }