Designing socket messaging format

[Manoj Plakal]

Chris Tavares wrote:

> "Manoj Plakal" <terabaap at yumpee.org> wrote in message
> news:3BF07BC8.3090405 at yumpee.org...
> [... snip ...]
> 
>>       Basically, we need a portable, light-weight messaging
>>       protocol with a simple way of finding out how
>>       to connect to an application and calling some
>>       of the methods it exposes. Without having to
>>       do HTTP and XML and all that stuff that comes
>>       with XML-RPC and SOAP.
>>
>>
> This is pretty much the goal of COM on Windows systems. It's potentially
> very light weight - for simple addins, it's an inprocess function call.
> 
> You might want to look at the Mozilla XPCOM stuff.

           I was going through some presentations by
           ActiveState on PyXPCOM and noticed a big
           bummer that basically rules out XPCOM: it
           can't be used for inter-process communication.
           All components that you talk to have to
           be loaded in the current application.

           Manoj