RE: Web RPCs Considered Harmful

Anders Tell wrote:

>IMHO should formats as JPEG not be part of a RPC because RPC is
interprocess
>invokation of remote functionality.

I can easily imagine an RPC within a medical imaging system such as:

RESULT StoreImage( INTEGER PatientID, DATETIME ImageDateTime, JPEG
BlobOfImageData);


>This begs the question, what should the scope be for an Internet RPC/OO
stanard?

I believe the question is much broader than RPC/OO, I thing the question is:

What is needed to support the various processing modes people are likely to
use in E-Commerce interactions?

Dick Brooks
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