RE: Setup Apache/CGIDEV2 vs private RPG based server

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When evaluating the choices also keep in mind the consumer of the
"service." It's going to be much easier from the client to consume a
service from a web-server (Apache) than it will be to code socket-level
communications to a custom socket-listener program... Sure the
web-server approach requires more code on the client side, but all that
code is already written in a class somewhere so calling a service on a
web-server is one or two lines of code, where calling (correctly) a
custom-socket program is more. 

I'd go w/Apache w/out a second thought. 

-Walden

PS. "service" above means just a page that the other machine calls that
returns a pre-determined dataset, not necessarily a SOA web-service
w/WSDL and all that jazz, although a web-service is the "right" way to
do this.

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