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Apache XMLRPC 1.0 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the new-code-released dept.

jvanzyl writes "The Apache XMLRPC team is pleased to announce the 1.0 release! Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls. Apache XML-RPC was previously known as Helma XML-RPC. If you have code using the Helma library, all you should have to do is change the import statements in your code from helma.xmlrpc.* to org.apache.xmlrpc.*."

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  1. Soap by Karma+50 · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Is this compatible with SOAP? I thought they were working towards that but there's nothing in the announcement about it ...

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    1. Re:Soap by Oily+Tuna · · Score: 3, Informative

      Were you thinking of Axis?. It's still work in progress, because SOAP is too

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  2. Re:interesting by mikemcc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft was not a driving force behind XML-RPC. That credit goes to Dave Winer of Userland Software. http://www.xmlrpc.org/spec

    XMP-RPC predates SOAP, and in fact was a major inspiration for SOAP. If you look at the specification for the latter protocol, http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ , you will see that Dave Winer is one of the eight authors credited.

    I have not seen anything which indicates that MS "lost control" of SOAP. MS engineers are 4/8 of the credited authors behind the SOAP 1.1 protocol, and MS's entire "Web Services" initiative depends heavily on SOAP.