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XML-RPC and Apache XML-RPC

• It’s a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet [...]
• It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned [...]
• some people still prefer XML-RPC to SOAP because of its simplicity, minimalism and ease of use [...]
• An XML-RPC message is an HTTP-POST request. The body of the request is in XML. A procedure executes on the server and the value it returns is also formatted in XML. [...]
• SOAP is very similar to XML-RPC. It, too, works by marshaling procedure calls over HTTP as XML documents. Unfortunately, SOAP appears to be suffering from specification creep. [...]
• Procedure parameters can be scalars, numbers, strings, dates, etc.; and can also be complex record and list structures. [...]

• Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC [...]