Itai Tavor <itavor@bigpond.net.au>

Tres Seaver wrote:

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I think I missed something here: Python *does* have an XML-RPC server implementation (xmlrpclib.py), which is how Zope can do XML-RPC.

I was thinking that for real two-way communication, the workstations will also have to be XML-RPC servers, and while I know that Zope can do that I have no idea how hard it would be to get xmlrpclib working outside Zope. But that's not really an issue if I use polling.

xmlrpclib.py is a normal Python module, published by the F-bot; I expect it will be part of the Python 1.6 distribution, for instance. It comes "out of the box" with a trivial server implementation, I think. Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com