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From: Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:45:10 -0000
Organization: Kanga.Nu
From: Tom Sullivan [mailto:one4k4@yahoo.com]
> My question is twofold. Has anybody seen a MUD written to use AIM
> as a text based client? And has anybody seen a MUD that uses SOAP
> as it's only communications layer?
I really like that idea, and I haven't seen it before.
> The "slow" part comes from message transfer, imho. And, I
> actually rewrote the AIM bot to use pure OOP and not SOAP as
> they're on the same box anyway. But the SOAP layer is still there
> for say, a flash front end...
> Every client needs to continously "poll" the server by sending an
> envelope every $x number of seconds to get any messages for that
> client.
> Security concerns aside, this method is kind of slow, which is the
> single downside I can see with using SOAP.
> Any thoughts? Am I crazy?
Nah I really like it, and when people say SOAP is slow, they aren't
thinking in terms of something like a MUD where I don't think the
speed will be an issue at all. Even on a fairly crappy PC I'd expect
your system to be able to handle multiple thousand invocations a
second.
Dan
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