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Something like asynchronous XML-RPC possible?

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jan 26 05:34:19 EST 2003 
hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) writes:

> 1) A caller must be able to continue immediately after issuing an
> event: no blocking waiting for a return value
> 
> 2) Language interoperability.  Preferably using an international
> standard.  This is what XML-RPC is good at.  The whole thing will be
> based on components written in different languages (Python, C, Java,
> ...).  For now XML-RPC is even better than SOAP because the SOAP
> standard is fluctuating.
>
> 
> 3) Speed.  This will always be limited by today's state of the art in
> technology, but for example starting a new thread to do a normal
> synchronous XML-RPC call will meet strong opposition.

Strictly interpreted, these two requirements may narrow the options to
CORBA only: If it is not acceptable that a reply is sent, then you
cannot use XML-RPC (which isn't an international standard, either),
since XML-RPC *does* include mandatory replies. So if you want true
oneway operations, CORBA is pretty much your only choice.

Regards,
Martin
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