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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Brian Wolf <brw314 / gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am researching web services area area, I am interested in calling a
> library written in C, more specifically a scripting language written in C on
> another computer from a web client (sorry for sounding so naive!).
>

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> Could someone provide a rough road map to such a project. Do I need to do
> anything to the C library, recompile , etc? Do I need to look at additional
> or other packages? I realize this is a big question, but if you could point
> me somewhere else to research this subject, that would be great.
>
>
The approach you outlined looks very similar to an XML-RPC style of web
service. You are invoking a method/function in a service residing on another
machine, by marshaling the invocation into an agreed upon XML syntax.

Web services is a big field - many would say unnecessarily overcomplicated.
You will need to do a bit more research on this or you are going to feel
some true pain - there are a LOT of different pieces to the puzzle that
allow you to execute remote code.

You should consider going straight for a RESTful approach rather than an RPC
based one. Your Web services will then start to look more like conventional
web design (so the same skills are useful), except that you are
processing/returning XML or JSON.

regards,
Richard.


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