Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[William Tanksley]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 04:57:00 GMT, Edward Muller wrote:
>I'm playing around with a way to expose Windows COM object via
>XML-RPC (or something else).

I love how well Python works with XML-RPC.  It's just amazing.

Anyhow, what you want is SOAP, which was a byproduct of XML-RPC.
Microsoft helped develop XML-RPC, but at one point the committee was
moving too slowly, so MS decided to make an end-run.  They finished SOAP
at about the same time, plus or minus, the committee did, but I suspect
that they put a lot more into it.

At any rate, SOAP provides a Simple Object Access Protocol.  Just what you
need.  And it's essentially XML-RPC, and it's made to grok COM.

Highly satisfactory.  Now all we need is a truly open COM implementation.

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-William "Billy" Tanksley, in hoc signo hack