[Dev] writing extension parcels

[Morgen Sagen]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote:

> I hate to be nitpicky, but I have to mention JSON as an option for  
> serializing data across http (http://www.crockford.com/JSON/), esp.  
> since it's really easy for javascript environments to use, which  
> includes both mac dashboard and ajax.  xml-rpc and other things  
> like mac plists define an xml language to make associative arrays,  
> lists, strings, and numbers... so why not cut to the chase and just  
> send those around?  and json parsers exist for every language.   
> Though json doesn't have a remote method calling standard the way  
> xml-rpc does, though one could be made with a little bit of effort  
> (ok, i was going to do such a little bit of effort for js and  
> python, but never got around to it..)
>
> brendan

How about we support both XML-RPC and JSON?  :-)  I've already  
started the XML-RPC servlet, and we can do the JSON one next week  
perhaps.

~morgen