From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-03-10T11:33:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Protocols

> Is there a preferred set of ruby libraries for client/server solutions?  As
> an example, RPC.  The protocol needs to exist for Ruby and Perl, so druby
> wont work.  XML-RPC seems to be the leading candidate, despite my objectives
> to XML.

Assuming you meant to write "objections to XML", you need not actually *see* or *edit* any XML using XML-RPC.  It's just a wire
format.  The conversion to/from native data types and icky XML should be hidden inside the client/server code.  Of course, if
something goes wrong it can be handy to inspect what's going over the wire, but your exposure to XML can be kept to a minimum.

James