[ZODB-Dev] Python RPC

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:16:11AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> As has already been pointed out, the big advantage of XML-RPC
> (and SOAP, as long as we can continue to maintain interop) (and
> I suppose CORBA as well) is that you are not limiting your
> endpoints to Python.

That has nothing to do with XML.  You could easily define a
portable pickle-like data format that was more compact, easier to
parse, faster to parse, and easier to implement than XML.

  Neil