Designing socket messaging format

[Manoj Plakal]

Chris Tavares wrote:

> "Manoj Plakal" <terabaap at yumpee.org> wrote in message
> news:3BF07BC8.3090405 at yumpee.org...
>>       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.



        Thanks for reminding me, I'll take a look.
        Anyone have experiences using XPCOM? ActiveState
        is using it for Komodo, are there others?

        Manoj