[Zope3-Users] Zope as an XML-RPC *Client*

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 22:54, Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 18:09, Derek Richardson wrote:
> > A colleague is interested in using Zope 3 (and, if possible, Grok) to
> > write a web app whose objects live, not in the ZODB or in an SQL DB, but
> > on the other end of XML-RPC calls. I am unclear how to implement this
> > one. Would an application of this type even have content objects? If
> > not, how would it be architected?
>
> No. Basically your write a ZODB-less Zope application where the root object
> is a libxmlrpc server proxy object. That should work like a charm.

Well, I should be careful here. Getting transactions right might be very 
difficult. That would require some serious thinking -- it will probably boil 
down to your XML-RPC server also needing to support transactions. But aside 
from that I astill think it would be a cool demo. ;-)

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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