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

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