RPC Status Information (2002/04/30)
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part/protocoll      status                  needed librarys
--------------      --------------------    ----------------
	  
Base RPC support     beta (working ok)     normal gnue-common libs

XMLRPC*:             server: beta (working ok)  xmlrpclib.py from
(Pythonware)	     client: beta (working ok)  www.pythonware.com 

XMLRPC**:            server: beta (working ok)  py-xmlrpc.sf.net or
 (py-xmlrpc)	     client: beta (working ok)  apt-get install python-xmlrpc

Corba:	             not implemented yet

Pyro:                server+client: alpha (80% impl.)  apt-get install pyro

SOAP:		     not implemented yet



* XMLRPC (Pythonware) can be accessed by: "xmlrpc.pw_xmlrpc"
* XMLRPC (py-xmlrpc) can be accessed by: "xmlrpc.py_xmlrpc"



more details about RPC-comm-adapters
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working Adapters:

xmlrpc    client and server-adaptors for the XMLRPC-protocol, baseing on
          a fast, LGPL'd xmlrpc library from py-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net.
          !! does not support https !!
	  options:  port       int
	            loglevel   int  sets the loglevel for the xmlrpc lib

pw-xmlrpc client and server-adaptors for the XMLRPC-protocol, baseing on
          a xmlrpc library (no LGPL) from www.pythonware.com.
          !! support https !!

pyro      client and server adaptors for the Python Remote Object Framework.
          this will be faster and more reliable than xmlrpc, as it uses 
          python's native prickle function. (now still in alpha stage)
          
          ATTENTION: To use pyro a pyro nameserver needs to be running!

yet not working Adapters:

orbit
...
