[From nobody Mon Mar 25 16:13:34 2013 Return-Path: <owner-erlang-questions@erlang.org> Received: from styx.du.uab.ericsson.se (styx [172.30.36.16]) by super.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.10.1/8.10.1/erix-1.8) with ESMTP id f9VLmcX13531; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:48:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from hades.cslab.ericsson.net (hades.cslab.ericsson.net [193.180.168.23]) by styx.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/styx-1.0) with ESMTP id WAA52747; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:48:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from owner-erlang-questions@erlang.org) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hades.cslab.ericsson.net (8.10.0/8.10.0/hades-1.2) id f9VLlxE14207 for erlang-questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:47:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from relay-2v.club-internet.fr (relay-2v.club-internet.fr [194.158.96.113]) by hades.cslab.ericsson.net (8.10.0/8.10.0/hades-1.2) with ESMTP id f9VLltx14202 for <erlang-questions@erlang.org>; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:47:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from louxor.home (bas0-145.idf.w.club-internet.fr [213.44.240.145]) by relay-2v.club-internet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87CA1744; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:47:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from mikl by louxor.home with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15z3DJ-0000pV-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:47:57 +0100 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:47:56 +0100 From: Mickael Remond <mickael.remond@erlang-fr.org> To: "Steven H. Rogers" <shrogers@ionet.net> Cc: erlang-questions@erlang.org Subject: Re: Erlang/OTP and the Web Services Universe Message-ID: <20011031224756.A798@erlang-fr.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mickael Remond <mickael.remond@erlang-fr.org>, "Steven H. Rogers" <shrogers@ionet.net>, erlang-questions@erlang.org References: <3BDE0FFF.6FE3D2F5@ionet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BDE0FFF.6FE3D2F5@ionet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hades.cslab.ericsson.net id f9VLlux14203 Sender: owner-erlang-questions@erlang.org Precedence: bulk X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Steven H. Rogers (shrogers@ionet.net) wrote: > Erlang/OTP is not mentioned in either article, but seems to be an very > viable alternative, so I have a couple of questions for the Erlang/OTP > community. > > - Is there a strategy for promoting Erlang/OTP as a general web services > platform? > > - Are there any initiatives to support .NET and/or J2EE > interoperability? In fact I really think that web services are a win for functionnal programming and for Erlang in particular. The way to architect a distributed application based on web services is very similar to the way you would build an Erlang application ... except the fact that you get extra feature with Erlang: - Fault tolerance, - High-availability mecanism, - Fast development, - ... For more information, you can have a look at my slides from the Firenze Erlang Workshop: http://www.erlang-fr.org/en-area/pli01_Firenze/index.html So to answer your questions: - Yes I think that OTP is a viable alternative to .NET and J2EE. - Yes I am planning to add mecanism to interoperate with SOAP services and probably J2EE. If you are interested, maybe we could see if we could do something together. -- Mickaël Rémond http://www.erlang-fr.org/ ]