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From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] RPCs, XML, Schemas, WSDL and SOAP
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:10:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183979448.7083.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706185741.GA30545@furbychan.cocan.org>

Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Richard Jones:
> Have you looked into using SunRPC?  ocamlnet provides an
> implementation, it can be run over SSL, it's far more lightweight than
> XML, and there's a strong chance you'll be able to interoperate with
> clients and servers written in other languages.  

It is not only a chance, it simply works. But be warned: My SunRPC
implementation is a very strong one, far better than what can be found
in libc. Unfortunately, many developers have prejudices against this
simple and robust protocol because of the weak (because old) C
implementation.

> Another option would
> be s-expressions using the Jane St. library.

And another one is JSON over HTTP. This especially interesting for web
apps because you can easily access the data from javascript.

Gerd
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06 16:24 Jon Harrop
2007-07-06 18:57 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-07-07 12:51   ` Benedikt Grundmann
2007-07-09 11:10   ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
2007-07-09 11:47     ` Richard Jones
2007-07-07 13:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-07-07 13:57   ` Jon Harrop

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