XML-RPC, SOAP, and data persistence

[Irmen de Jong]

Mark Carter 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.

I strongly recommend you to takea look at Pyro,
http://pyro.sourceforge.net

With a few extra lines of code you can make Python
objects in your application remotely accessible as
if they were just regular local objects.

Pyro server objects are long running processes that
sit there and wait till someone invokes methods on
them. You can create per-user objects instances too.

Have a look!

--Irmen de Jong

PS Pyro is only suitable for a 100% python environment.
(both client and server are written in Python).