Remote Procedure Call - Other RPC Analogues

Other RPC Analogues

RPC analogues found elsewhere:

  • Java's Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) API provides similar functionality to standard Unix RPC methods.
  • Modula-3's network objects, which were the basis for Java's RMI
  • XML-RPC is an RPC protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.
  • JSON-RPC is an RPC protocol that uses JSON-encoded messages
  • JSON-WSP is an RPC protocol that uses JSON-encoded messages
  • SOAP is a successor of XML-RPC and also uses XML to encode its HTTP-based calls.
  • RPyC implements RPC mechanisms in Python, with support for asynchronous calls.
  • Pyro object-oriented form of RPC for Python.
  • ZeroC's Internet Communications Engine (Ice) distributed computing platform.
  • Etch (protocol) framework for building network services.
  • Facebook's Thrift protocol and framework.
  • BERT-RPC is an RPC protocol in use by Github
  • CORBA provides remote procedure invocation through an intermediate layer called the object request broker.
  • Distributed Ruby (DRb) allows Ruby programs to communicate with each other on the same machine or over a network. DRb uses remote method invocation (RMI) to pass commands and data between processes.
  • Action Message Format (AMF) allows Adobe Flex applications to communicate with back-ends or other applications that support AMF.
  • Libevent provides a framework for creating RPC servers and clients.
  • Windows Communication Foundation is an application programming interface in the .NET framework for building connected, service-oriented applications.
  • Microsoft .NET Remoting offers RPC facilities for distributed systems implemented on the Windows platform. It has been superseded by WCF.
  • The deprecated Microsoft DCOM
  • The Open Software Foundation DCE/RPC Distributed Computing Environment (also implemented by Microsoft).
  • Google Protocol Buffers (protobufs) package includes an interface definition language used for its RPC protocols.
  • Google Web Toolkit uses an asynchronous RPC to communicate the server service.

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