Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Scripting on Windows - persisting data structures

Author:Adam Trachtenberg
Posted:1/12/1999; 12:41:38 PM
Topic:Scripting on Windows
Msg #:2048 (In response to 2045)
Prev/Next:2047 / 2049

If you're interested in sharing data structures between scripting languages, WDDX seems to be gathering momentum as an XML-based way to do so.

http://www.wddx.org

That might eliminate the need for a Frontier run-time. You could create your objects in Frontier (maybe on your server) and could then use any WDDX-enabled language on the client to get the objects (via TCP/IP? with RPC?) and act upon them. The downside is that you'd have to use two different languages. The upside is that there's bound to be some MS/ASP/Perl program that does what you need your run-time to do and it'd be easy to change to something else when a better solution came along later (including, obviously, a Frontier run-time.)

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