XML-RPC, SOAP, and data persistence

[A.M. Kuchling]

On 14 Oct 2003 03:20:29 -0700, 
	Mark Carter <cartermark46 at ukmail.com> wrote:
> XML-RPC appears to deal with remote procedure calls, but doesn't
> address process persistence issues. It has a missing piece in the
> "distributed computing" puzzle. Maybe SOAP can do better, because it
> has objects. That's mu question.

No, SOAP doesn't address persistence any more than XML-RPC does; both
implement remote procedure calls with more or fewer bells and whistles. SOAP
has the additional disadvantage that the spec is very complicated, making it
hard for Python implementations to be up-to-date.

--amk