Applications Messaging Standard

[Tony Linde]

Quick(ish) question re PLASTIC: is the plastic hub something like a message
broker? And if so, how does it relate to existing ones such as ActiveMQ
(http://activemq.apache.org/home.html)? 

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-apps at eso.org [mailto:owner-apps at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Alasdair Allan
> Sent: 06 February 2007 17:12
> To: Paul Harrison
> Cc: Noel Winstanley; apps at ivoa.net; John Taylor; Mark Allen
> Subject: Re: Applications Messaging Standard (was Re: ) 
> 
> 
> Paul Harrison wrote:
> > Alasdair Allan wrote:
> >> JSON has mind share and is viewed as being "sexier" than XML-RPC  
> >> for some reason.
> >
> > I have to say this is another case of web 2.0 hype...
> >
> > JSON invented because it directly evaled into javascript data  
> > object, but as every Perl programmer from the earliest CGI days  
> > knows that is a security nightmare...
> 
> As a Perl programmer, err, yup! However I do make extensive use of  
> Data::Dumper and Storable (et al.) to serialise, transmit or store,   
> and then eval() Perl objects. I just don't send them over the wire  
> (or accept them) from/to un-trusted sources. That way lies madness.
> 
> > so you need to use a JSON parser - so what is the point?
> 
> It's as good as anything? It's compact and fairly simple, there are  
> lots of libraries to parse and create it, and people seem to 
> like it.  
> It'll be around for a while. We could have worse reasons.
> 
> Al.
> 
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