I worked on a very similar project about two years ago. The problem was to build a middleware layer to translate the data format of several legacy systems the company had built over 10 years to a common format. We debated many solutions including SOAP, but settled on XML over HTTP. We used Apache and mod_perl. The project was a success and the middleware server had no problems keeping up with demand.

The first module was the hardest (a few weeks of programming) then with a framework in place everything went fast.

The mod_perl is propietary but one thing that really helped us was a good testing program. We wrote HTTPtest so that we could run regression tests against the system. And because it was soooooo boring reading the same output over and over again on a browser. HTTPtest was released to public. It may prove usefull to you as well.

http://www.anomaly.org/wade/projects/httptest/index.html

Good luck,
--Burke

In reply to Re: HTTP server guidance by Anonymous Monk
in thread HTTP server guidance by DaveH

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