Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Edward Muller]

Like I said in my original posting, what I am BASICALLY looking to do is
expose COM object across the net via X (where X is some API/system that is
cross platform & cross language). The original idea came up as a way to get
my email from any system by writing a python program that would interact with
the MAPI.Session COM object, expose the COM object (or something) and then on
the client side I could write a program using the exposed (over the network)
COM object.....So basically I could get my Exchange Email/Calendar/Task List
on my Linux Box or one of our Solaris boxes, or via a Java client in a web
browser, etc. etc. etc.

I've re-read the SOAP docs, and agree that it looks pretty cool, but there is
NO existing Python implimentation and my goal is not to write EVERYTHING from
scratch. I do not claim to be a great programmer and my time is limited.

If this topic (Exposing COM via some mechanizm for use acrosss a network)
please email me.

William Tanksley wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:41:21 -0500 , Brian Lloyd wrote:
>
> >> At any rate, SOAP provides a Simple Object Access Protocol.
> >> Just what you
> >> need.  And it's essentially XML-RPC, and it's made to grok COM.
>
> >> Highly satisfactory.  Now all we need is a truly open COM
> >> implementation.
>
> >Maybe not - IMHO SOAP is a good step forward, since you will
> >now be able to just implement SOAP-aware Python objects instead
> >of mucking around with COM. You can still interoperate with
> >existing COM objects - hey, you could even declare them to be
> >"legacy" code :^)
>
> Yes, but you can only write COM objects on a COM-supporting platform.  I'm
> not aware of any freely available ones (although WINE might have
> something, its docs don't mention it).
>
> I'm helping a friend implement COM for his OS, so I'm a bit grumpy ;-).
> It's a cool system.
>
> >Brian Lloyd        brian at digicool.com
>
> Go Zope!
>
> --
> -William "Billy" Tanksley, in hoc signo hack