The Caml Hump: Communications and networking :: RPC

OCaml-bitcoin is a library offering an OCaml interface to the official Bitcoin client API. It works by making JSON-RPC calls over the network to a running Bitcoin daemon offering the client API.

RPC is a package supporting the Sun RPC protocol. RPC programs, procedures, clients, and servers can be dynamically represented and modified. Of course, there is also a classical RPC generator which generates functions doing the language mapping from XDR values to language values and vice versa.

'Concurrent Cell' is a library for multi-thread programming with CML(Concurrent ML) style synchronous message passing communications. The Threads library, a part of OCaml, realizes the CML style event value, but does not support shared variables like ivar and mvar. This library implements these variables without creating any new thread. This means that ivar and mvar are lightweight and GC target.

Hydro is an independent implementation of ICE, the object-oriented RPC protocol by ZeroC, for the O'Caml programming language. Hydro (like ICE) allows you to bridge language barriers by letting components written in different programming languages communicate with each other. ZeroC's ICE product currently includes implementations for C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, VB, and PHP. Hydro adds support for O'Caml. The ICE protocol is rich enough to make the representation of the data to communicate easy and convenient to use, and adopts an object-oriented type system. ZeroC sees ICE as a superior successor to CORBA.

An implementation of the XML-RPC protocol.

Orpc is a tool for generating RPC clients and servers. It can generate clients / servers for use with Ocamlnet's ONC RPC implementation (like ocamlrpcgen), and also for RPC over HTTP for use with ocamljs. To describe interfaces, you give orpc an OCaml signature instead of an RFC-1831/1832-format file. Most OCaml types (including polymorphic types), exceptions, and functions with labelled/optional arguments are supported.

Remote Middleware Daemon is a high level identity management library focused on services and access control, and exposed via both xdr-rpc, and xml-rpc. It is written entirely in Objective Caml, except for the trivial xmlrpc interface, which is in perl.

Generic RPC transaction manager.

XmlRpc-Light is an XmlRpc client written in OCaml. It requires Xml-Light and Ocamlnet.