[ale] RMI Library

[Christopher Fowler]

Right.  Abstraction I would do even if I implemented this from scratch. 
It just begs for it.  But why over http?  Because http is typically
allowed over a firewall and you do not have to run another service?  Why
not a simple server that is meant to do the job of remote procedure
calls that is not implemented using an HTTP POST?


Why use HTTP for this?  I guess authtentication with cookies work too.

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:03, Denny Chambers wrote:
> Basically, yea. But you don't see that, that part is abstracted. You
> make function calls and get returns from those calls. All the HTTP
> stuff is hidden. This is the same for SOAP or RMI over HTTP.
> 
> 
> Denny
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote: 
> > XML-RPC confuses me.  Does the client simply send the request via a POST
> > and then reads the response of the POST as the values the method
> > returns?
> > 
> > Sounds to me like a hack. :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:53, Fletch wrote:
> >   
> > > > > > > > "Christopher" == Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
> > > > > > > >               
> > > 
> > >     Christopher> Anyone know of an RMI library or like for C?
> > > 
> > > Might look at:
> > > 
> > > http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/
> > >     
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