Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction What XML-RPC Does Where XML-RPC Excels A Quick Tour of the Minefields. 2. The XML-RPC Protocol Choreography Data Types Request Format Response Format The Nil Value A DTD for XML-RPC. 3. Client-Server Communication: XML-RPC in Java Why XML-RPC for Java? The XML-RPC Java Library Building XML-RPC Clients Building XML-RPC Servers Creating XML-RPC Handlers Three Practical Examples Moving Toward Cross-Platform Peer-to-Peer. 4. XML-RPC and Perl Perl's Implementation of XML-RPC Data Types XML-RPC Clients XML-RPC Servers Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server. 5. Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP Getting the XML-RPC Library for PHP Understanding the Client Classes Mapping Data Between PHP and XML-RPC Invoking Methods Building XML-RPC Servers in PHP Connecting Web Applications What PHP and XML-RPC Can Do. 6. XML-RPC and Python Python Implementations of XML-RPC Installing PythonWare XML-RPC Data Types XML-RPC Clients XML-RPC Servers Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server Using Zope as an XML-RPC Server. 7. Bridging XML-RPC and COM: XML-RPC in ASP Using XML-RPC with ASP Making Active Server Pages More Active Data Types and the API Building an Address Book Web Service with ASP Talking to MS Access from Linux An XML-RPC Client in ASP Creating a Window to Linux Connections and Caveats. 8. XML-RPC and the Web Services Landscape The Web Services Vision Public XML-RPC Services Design Considerations for Any XML-RPC Application Beyond XML-RPC Protocol Design Choices XML-RPC and Web Services. A. The XML You Need for XML-RPC B. The HTTP You Need for XML-RPC Index

About the Author

Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth. He is a contributing editor to XMLhack.com and an occasional contributor to XML.com. Joe Johnston is a software engineer at O'Reilly & Associates. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Boston with a B.A. in computer science, he is a teacher, web designer, and author of articles for Perl Journal, Perl.com, and IBM's DeveloperWorks. Joe helps maintain the ASP XML-RPC library and wrote the Perl module Frontier::Responder.pm. Edd Dumbill is managing editor of XML.com, part of the O'Reilly Network, and founding editor of XMLhack.com, a daily news site for XML developers. He maintains the XML-RPC support classes for the PHP scripting language. Edd lives in York, England.

Reviews

'This is a good book and, if this is an area of programming that interests you, simply buy a copy and save yourself hours of trial and error.' - Mike James, Computer Shopper, October 2001