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Creating an XML-RPC Server

Now that you have a Java class that will handle XML-RPC requests, you're ready to develop a server that waits for these requests to arrive, dispatching them to the handler.

The LottoServer class drives a simple web server that looks for these requests.

Apache XML-RPC has two core packages: org.apache.xmlrpc for applications and org.apache.xmlrpc for applications.

The WebServer class in org.apache.xmlrpc functions as a bare-bones XML-RPC server that listens on a specified TCP/IP Internet port:

int port = 4404;
server = new WebServer(port);

The choice of port number 4404 is arbitrary; any port from 1,024 through 49,151 could be chosen.

By the way The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, a group that decrees how ports ...