On 7 dic, 18:52, tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, do I have to make a WSDL? Do people hand write these, or > are there tools? I don't really need to publish an interface. I just > want some in house apps to communicate. > > I can't figure out if I want SOAP, or CORBA, or would it just be > easier if I just starting opening sockets and firing data around > directly. Ideally, I'd like to share complex objects. That's why > I thought that I needed one of the above standards.
A few alternatives: xml-rpc Pros: multiplatform, multilanguage, standard, available in python std lib, very simple to use Cons: simple function calls only, limited argument types, no objects as argument Pyro <http://pyro.sourceforge.net/> Pros: object based, multiplatform, full python language support (argument list, keyword arguments...) Cons: only Python supported, non standard CORBA is a big beast and if you don't actually need it, don't use it... -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list