Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Edward Muller]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Edward Muller <edwardam at home.com> wrote:
> > I do completly agree. I spent some more time looking at the specs. But what
> > languages/platforms is SOAP CURRENTLY implimented on? CURRENTLY being the key
> > here. XML-RPC is implimented in C/Python/Java, etc, etc....That means I can do
> > what I want to do from just about ANY OS, as a cgi script, or a java
> > applet....With SOAP I can't...
>
> now that the 1.0 specification is out [1] [2], I'm pretty
> confident that there will be lots of implementations out
> there real soon now.
>
> on the other hand, why not use XML-RPC today, and
> switch to SOAP when code becomes available?
>
> > I do agree with you that SOAP would address my problem,
> > AND I WILL LOOK INTO DOING A PYTHON IMPLIMENTATION
>
> or you can wait for us to finish our implemenation (we
> wrote Python's highly popular XML-RPC library, and plan
> to add SOAP support in early 2000).  on the other hand,
> if you have the time and energy, go ahead.  competition
> is good !
>
> </F>
>
> 1) http://www.pythonware.com/madscientist/draft-box-http-soap-01.txt
> 2) http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coenz0bWbu0znmdKXqq&FQ=Secret+Labs+AB

That's what I decided to do.

Just wanted to thank everyone for the input.