Thanks everybody for your responses, they helped a lot. And sorry for my misconcept on JSON. ;] Sterling Clover, Nov 30, 2008:
These days, however, web services seem to be moving towards a RESTful model with a JSON layer and there are plenty of JSON libraries on hackage, which you could just throw over the fastCGI bindings. Alternately you could try JSON over one of the really lightweight haskell web servers, such as shed [2] or lucu [3]. If you go the atter route, I'd love to hear how it went.
So here is my first feedback. I hope that's something like an introduction to my futher feedbacks. 1. I started with HAppS. But found it lacking some good definitions. Moreover, I'm still a newbie and not yet confident with monads, so when I accidently saw this: "Author's Note: Due to my inexperience with Monads, these explanations are probably lacking. Feel free to improve them." (HAppS tutorial2, sect. 1.1), I felt myself standing on a risky ground, where the risk is to get Monads wronger than wrong. So I decided to check Lucu and return to HAppS later (when I'm "invincible"). 2. I loved Lucu, and feel respect to it's developer. The code is nice and tidy, one can feel good style in it. Looks like Lucu author achieved great technique in Haskell, knew, how to use Monads and laziness in full power. However I still didn't understand some aspects (simply becase of lacking experience). I sucessfully managed to write a helloworld which connected to DB and provided simple WEB interface. 3. I also tried shed httpd, which is the most minimalistic WEB server. This looks like the best start for a newbie, who isn't confident with monads yet. I manager a small comparison of Lucu and Shed responce times - Lucu was 2 times faster for 1 simple query, which returned 5 rows from small DB. Now I'm planning 1. To try some modification of Lucu, so it has a DB connection in it's environment and some basic triggering (providing conditioned actions after WEB interaction process). 2. Implement one simple project on it. Regards, Belka -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Haskell%2C-successing-crossplatform-API-standart-tp207... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.