Best Middle Tier Architechure?

[Butternut Squash]

Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

> 2006/9/7, Butternut Squash <rxrx at yamama.com>:
>> right now we are using c# and .net remoting in a way that just is not
>> efficient.
>>
>> I want to rewrite a lot of what we do in python. I have seen XML-RPC and
>> soap.  Are there other options?
> 
> It surely depends on what's going to be on the other sides. If
> everything is Python, you may use Twisted.Spread. If you have to
> communicate with different languages and plataforms, maybe CORBA
> helps. Well, I'm sure a lot of people know more options than I do
> here.
> 
I have to support multiple applications using different schema and
databases.  Would like to present as much as a unified interface as
possible.