Several questions: python plugin, xml-rpc + Medusa

[Fredrik Lundh]

Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> wrote:
>     Scott> Second question: has anyone melded the xmlrpclib stuff to
Medusa
>     Scott> yet, other than Zope?  If I were to need something like that,
>     Scott> should I just use Zope?  I'm trying to keep things lightweight,
>     Scott> and I don't need the full-fledged Zope framework (which is
verra,
>     Scott> verra nice, but the master of the castle already has one, you
>     Scott> see...)
>
> I use the ZServer component of Zope with XML-RPC without using all of
Zope.
> ZServer is built on Medusa, so it would appear the good folks at Digital
> Creations have already done the legwork you require.

Sam has contributed a sample module for medusa to the
standard xmlrpclib distribution [1].

>     Scott> Thirdly: SOAP sounds interesting as well. Is SOAP as
>     Scott> cross-language portable as XML-RPC? I can do the latter in
>     Scott> Python, Perl, Java, etc...  what has SOAP been implemented for
at
>     Scott> this juncture?
>
> SOAP implementations aren't as mature as XML-RPC yet.  I stopped looking
> fairly early on because all the stuff I saw floating around required
> Internet Explorer or Perl.  Fredrik Lundh is/was working on a Python
> interface to SOAP, but I don't know the status.

we're still working on it -- just gotta ship a few other
things first.  hope to make an announcement in a not
too distant future.

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