[Zope-dev] remote procedure calls to manage functions

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> > It's not really favored, both are quite useful.  xml-rpc is more for
> > when you want two different system to interoperate.  ZClient is very
> > zope specific and probably gives you a bit more functionality than
> > xml-rpc (because it has the 'remote object' abstraction).
> 
> I don't think ZClient is really Zope specific. At least
> it's not supposed to be.  It does have a richer API, including
> features like authentication and header support.

The problem I have with ZClient is that the result of method calls is always
a string - while with XML-RPC I can get lists/dictionaries/integers, if
that's what the method returned.

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