[Zope-dev] Re: Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Edward Muller]

Michel Pelletier wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Heller [mailto:thomas.heller at ion-tof.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:52 PM
> > To: Brian Lloyd; 'Edward Muller'; python-list at python.org
> > Cc: zope-dev at zope.org
> > Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else
> >
> >
> > > You might want to take a look at MS' SOAP (Simple Object Access
> > > Protocol) spec - it's not fully baked yet, but it basically takes
> > > xml-rpc several steps further, allowing you to communicate with
> > > SOAP-enabled objects (COM or otherwise) using XML over HTTP. We in
> > > Zope-land are keeping a close eye on this, as publishing objects
> > > via HTTP is the core idea of Zope already.
> >
> > Zope and SOAP sounds very similar.
> > Is this by accident?
>
> Yup
>
> -Michel

I took a look at the SOAP specs at work, and it is basically XML-RPC with
some differences....It looks like MS is at it again....designing YAAPI
(Yet Another API) to confuse the world....

:-(