-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Heller [mailto:thomas.heller@ion-tof.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:52 PM To: Brian Lloyd; 'Edward Muller'; python-list@python.org Cc: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

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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?

Yup -Michel