>> I can't figure out if I want SOAP, or CORBA, or would it just be > Unless you are talking to an existing CORBA interface, don't go there.
Can't agree to that. CORBA is by far better than SOAP. And writing an IDL is actually a easy and straightforward thing to do - no tools needed, as when writing WSDL. With omniORB there is a easy to use, powerful and actively devloped ORB for python available. The only thing that makes it complicated is life-cycle-management. You don't get that for free. But then, it's a hard thing to do anyway in a distributed evnvironment. >> 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. If all is python, use Pyro. If you need interoperability, and want OO-style interfaces, use CORBA. Steer clear from SOAP if you can. See http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple for more good reasons to avoid it at all cast than I can list here myself. So if it must be XML, use XMLRPC. After all, you can marshal anything over it if only you serialize dictionaries somehow - then the rest will follow. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
