[Zope-dev] Re: Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Fredrik Lundh]

Edward Muller <edwardam at home.com> wrote:
> I took a look at the SOAP specs at work, and it is basically XML-RPC with
> some differences....

so you didn't notice that SOAP addresses most of
the limitations in XML-RPC (including support for
None, better type support, support for cyclic
data structures, etc)?

or in other words, SOAP makes it possible to
handle any Python data structure that can
be Pickled.  XML-RPC doesn't.  definitely an
improvement, also for those who'll only use
it for Python-to-Python connections.

> It looks like MS is at it again....designing YAAPI
> (Yet Another API) to confuse the world....

not this time.

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