33.2 XML-RPC
The XML-RPC standard[ 168 ] enables remote function and method calls via a network interface. From the programmer's point of view, remote functions can be called as if they belonged to the local program. The transfer of the function calls and especially the parameters and the return value are completely handled by the XML-RPC library so that the programmer only needs to call the functions.
In addition to XML-RPC, there are other more or less standardized methods for remote function calls. But because XML-RPC is based on two existing standards, XML and HTTP, and doesn’t introduce any new binary protocols, it’s comparatively easy to implement and therefore available in many programming languages.
Since XML-RPC was developed independently ...
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