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

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

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

Corba:	             not implemented yet

Pyro:                not implemented yet

SOAP:		     not implemented yet



* XMLRPC (Pythonware) can be accessed by: "pw_xmlrpc"
* XMLRPC (py-xmlrpc) is gpl'd and made the standart for "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 !!

yet not working Adapters:

orbit
pyro
...
