Book description
Have you ever needed to share processing between two or more computers running programs written in different languages on different operating systems? Or have you ever wanted to publish information on the Web so that programs other than browsers could work with it? XML-RPC, a system for remote procedure calls built on XML and the ubiquitous HTTP protocol, is the solution you've been looking for.Programming Web Services with XML-RPC introduces the simple but powerful capabilities of XML-RPC, which lets you connect programs running on different computers with a minimum of fuss, by wrapping procedure calls in XML and establishing simple pathways for calling functions. With XML-RPC, Java programs can talk to Perl scripts, which can talk to Python programs, ASP applications, and so on. You can provide access to procedure calls without having to worry about the system on the other end, so it's easy to create services that are available on the Web.XML-RPC isn't the only solution for web services; the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is another much-hyped protocol for implementing web services. While XML-RPC provides fewer capabilities than SOAP, it also has far fewer interoperability problems and its capabilities and limitations are much better understood. XML-RPC is also stable, with over 30 implementations on a wide variety of platforms, so you can start doing real work with it immediately.Programming Web Services with XML-RPC covers the details of five XML-RPC implementations, so you can get started developing distributed applications in Java, Perl, Python, ASP, or PHP. The chapters on these implementations contain code examples that you can use as the basis for your own work. This book also provides in-depth coverage of the XML-RPC specification, which is helpful for low-level debugging of XML-RPC clients and servers. And if you want to build your own XML-RPC implementation for another environment, the detailed explanations in this book will serve as a foundation for that work.
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The XML-RPC Protocol
- 3. Client-Server Communication: XML-RPC in Java
- 4. XML-RPC and Perl
- 5. Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP
- 6. XML-RPC and Python
- 7. Bridging XML-RPC and COM: XML-RPC in ASP
- 8. XML-RPC and the Web Services Landscape
- A. The XML You Need for XML-RPC
- B. The HTTP You Need for XML-RPC
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Programming Web Services with XML-RPC
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2001
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596001193
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