Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Thomas Heller]

> You might want to take a look at MS' SOAP (Simple Object Access 
> Protocol) spec - it's not fully baked yet, but it basically takes
> xml-rpc several steps further, allowing you to communicate with 
> SOAP-enabled objects (COM or otherwise) using XML over HTTP. We in 
> Zope-land are keeping a close eye on this, as publishing objects 
> via HTTP is the core idea of Zope already.

Zope and SOAP sounds very similar.
Is this by accident?

Thomas Heller