[Zope-dev] Using Zope in a client-server system

[Tres Seaver]

Itai Tavor <itavor@bigpond.net.au>
> 
> Tres Seaver wrote:
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> >
> >I think I missed something here:  Python *does* have an XML-RPC server
> >implementation (xmlrpclib.py), which is how Zope can do XML-RPC.
> 
> I was thinking that for real two-way communication, the workstations
> will also have to be XML-RPC servers, and while I know that Zope can
> do that I have no idea how hard it would be to get xmlrpclib working
> outside Zope. But that's not really an issue if I use polling.

xmlrpclib.py is a normal Python module, published by the F-bot;  I expect it
will be part of the Python 1.6 distribution, for instance.  It comes "out of the
box" with a trivial server implementation, I think.

Tres.
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