...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.
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.
-- From http://www.xmlrpc.org
References
- XML-RPC for Newbies - http://davenet.userland.com/1998/07/14/xmlRpcForNewbies
bit dated that do you have other links for newbies to suggest? I've had a bit of success with WebDav under Tomcat 4. I've no idea how WebDav is handled in a perl environment.--Dennis Daniels What does WebDav have to do with XmlRpc?
- Home page for XML-RPC - http://www.xmlrpc.com
- XML-RPC spec - http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
- SOAP versus XML-RPC - http://weblog.masukomi.org/writings/xml-rpc_vs_soap.htm
See also: XmlRpcToWiki