Programming Jabber

Building a Requester and a Responder

Let’s have a look at the power and flexibility of Jabber-RPC and how to build requesters and responders. We’re going to build a client-based requester, in Python, and a client-based responder, in Java. There are two great XML-RPC library implementations for Python and Java that we’ll use to do the legwork for us. Figure 10-8 shows what we want to build.

To keep things fairly simple, we’ll just implement and call something similar to the getStateName() function already shown in the examples: getCountyName().

Figure 10-8. The Jabber-RPC requester and responder