> For many applications, it is useful to have Squeak to interact, but 
> CORBA isn't the obvious best choice.  If the people you want to 
> interact with are CORBA-ites, then obviously, you have to compromise. 
> But for things we've been exploring, CORBA is seriously heavyweight. 
> We've been finding things like XML-RPC to be lighter weight and work 
> well between Java and Squeak (as an example).

Lighter weight in what sense?
- lines of code for core
- lines of code for application
- network traffic
- compute cycles

Has anybody got a working XML parser in Squeak?

-david