Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Mark Hammond]

Samuel A. Falvo II wrote in message ...
>In article <slrn84m9gt.t0g.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>, Samuel A. Falvo II
>wrote:
>
>>>Please do battle with IDispatch - languages that already work with COM
will
>>>be much simpler to move to your Linux work if you do stick with this.
Perl,
>
>You know what?  In retrospect, I just realized that you wanted me to use
>IDispatch instead of creating my own interface.  My apologies for
>misunderstanding your post.  :-)

My apologies for the ambiguity :-)

>Where can I find the interface spec for IDispatch?  I haven't found it on
>Microsoft's site yet, but I'll keep looking.

I found is at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib2.idc?theURL=/library/wcedoc/wcesdkr/
ki_de_12.htm

(good luck at getting that URL into your browser :-)


Also look at IDispatchEx() - targetted more for "dynamic" objects.

Much later, for arbitary scripting you could consider the Active Scripting
interfaces.  Like IDispatch, you may not agree 100% with the design, but it
does exist, and therefore existing code may be usable - as opposed to
inventing your own interfaces, and _forcing_ everyone to start from scratch!

Mark,