Java has SunRPC libs, for instance:
http://remotetea.sourceforge.net/
(and there are a bunch of apparently commercial ones - try searching for
'jrpcgen'). I don't have the stomach to install all the Java crap
needed to find out whether these interoperate ...
Rich.
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