A '''R'''emote '''P'''rocedure '''C'''all allows a process to communicate with another process. ** See Also ** [Inventory of IPC methods]: covers a variety of means of communicating between processes. ** Tcl RPC Systems ** [comm]: [TclSOAP]: [dp_RPC]: A [pure-Tcl] replacement for [Tcl-DP] [Tcl-DP]: Adds [TCP], [UDP], IP-multicast connection management, remote procedure call (RPC), serial communication and distributed object protocols to Tcl. A C API allows non-Tcl RPC clients to send commands to an RPC server and receive responses. ** General RPC Protocols ** There are Tcl implementations of many of the following protocols [CORBA]: [JSON-RPC]: [XML-RPC]: [WSDL]: <> Glossary