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===== How OpenSRF Stacks Up =====

How does OpenSRF compare to other Application Frameworks on choice of development languages:
|                          ^ OpenSRF  ^ J2EE   ^ Catalyst ^ Maypole ^
^ Native Perl Client       |    X     |        |    X     |    n/a  |
^ Native C Client          |    X     |        |          |         |
^ Native JavaScript Client |    X     |        |          |         |
^ Native Python Client     |    X     |        |          |         |
^ Native Ruby Client       |  (soon)  |        |          |         |
^ Native Java Client       |    X     |    X   |          |         |
^ Perl Server              |    X     |        |    X     |    X    |
^ C Server                 |    X     |        |          |         |
^ Java Server              | (one day)|    X   |          |         |
^ Python Server            |    X     |        |          |         |


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How does OpenSRF compare to other Application Frameworks on general features:
|                                                  ^ OpenSRF  ^ J2EE   ^ Catalyst ^ Maypole ^
^ Built in load balancing                          |    X     |    X   |          |         |
^ Built in service failover                        |    X     |    X   |    n/a   |    n/a  |
^ Built in Object Persistance Model                |    X     |    X   |    X     |     X   |
^ Centralized Application Configuration Management |    X     |        |    n/a   |    n/a  |
^ API Namespaces and API versioning                |    X     |    X   |    n/a   |    n/a  |
^ Open inter-server messaging protocol             |    X     |    X   |    n/a   |    n/a  |

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      - [[Language Agnostic]]