Thanks for your comment! That dynamic interaction and the low overhead for publishing histograms were two of the main reasons to do this. Yes, your servers will just send out bytes, and apache is pretty good at that.
Note that we are just entering this new world - we have no experience with publishing this code / API properly, to make it usable by many possible applications while keeping the most common case (displaying histograms of a root file) as simple as possible. Luckily we have a wizard of Javascript right down the corridor; I hope he can help us with that.
Nevertheless, I'd really appreciate if you could contact Bertrand.Bellenot@cern and discuss how you'd like to use his code; this would definitely help with defining the interfaces.
Re: Scary but useful
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your comment! That dynamic interaction and the low overhead for publishing histograms were two of the main reasons to do this. Yes, your servers will just send out bytes, and apache is pretty good at that.
Note that we are just entering this new world - we have no experience with publishing this code / API properly, to make it usable by many possible applications while keeping the most common case (displaying histograms of a root file) as simple as possible. Luckily we have a wizard of Javascript right down the corridor; I hope he can help us with that.
Nevertheless, I'd really appreciate if you could contact Bertrand.Bellenot@cern and discuss how you'd like to use his code; this would definitely help with defining the interfaces.
Cheers, Axel.