Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Brian Lloyd]

> 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.

Maybe not - IMHO SOAP is a good step forward, since you will
now be able to just implement SOAP-aware Python objects instead
of mucking around with COM. You can still interoperate with 
existing COM objects - hey, you could even declare them to be 
"legacy" code :^) 

Brian Lloyd        brian at digicool.com
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