The reason people recommended SOAP is that it is the currently the best XML command server available. You should go to SOAPlite for the quickest server implementation I have ever seen anywhere.

So to answer your points:

bikeNomad got so many votes because he gave a good answer.

SOAP is the right answer

I can't believe you can implement a XML client-server combo in less lines than I can do one with SOAPlite. If you can, post it here and I promise I'll spend the next month upvoting all of your posts.

If you also manage to make it interoperable with MS COMs, implement C and Python libraries, and provide a abstract transport layer that allows communication over TCP/IP, email and other goodies like that., I'll drop at your feet.

Until then, check out SOAPlite.

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I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

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