Programming Web Services with XML-RPC |
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Joe Johnston, Edd Dumbill, Simon St.Laurent, John Posner
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Pages: 230 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0596001193
Pub: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub date: 2001-06-21
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 210032
Editorial Review:
Programming Web Services with XML-RPC explains how to use XML over HTTP to build distributed applications. This of course is the realm of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), which is an evolving W3C standard. XML-RPC is not SOAP, although the two have a common ancestry. XML-RPC has fewer features than SOAP, and is procedural rather than object-orientated. On the plus side, it is a stable, practical and easy-to-use standard.
After a couple of chapters introducing XML-RPC, this short book gets straight down to the nitty-gritty of implementing solutions in a variety of languages. There is a chapter each on Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and ASP (Active Server Pages). Each chapter explains where to find XML-RPC libraries, and how to create both client and server applications, complete with snippets of example code. Although few readers will be working with all these technologies, the diversity demonstrates how effectively XML-RPC bridges different languages and platforms. By way of illustration, one of the ASP examples shows how to talk to Microsoft Access from Linux, a common real-world problem in mixed-platform environments.
The closing chapter gives the wider picture, showing where to find public XML-RPC services, offering design tips, and explaining how to choose between XML-RPC and SOAP. There is an appendix covering XML basics, and a second one offering a brief introduction to HTTP. For anyone who has looked at SOAP and found it bewilderingly complex, XML-RPC and this book could well be the answer. --Tim Anderson
Reader Reviews:
XML-RPC is the way, this book is a MUST-HAVE (3/3 people found this helpful)
Having been involved for more a year in a project where we developed a platform based on an XML-RPC like functionality I wish I could have read this book at the time before we begun. Not that we did anything wrong, but this book really gives a concise picture of what XML-RPC is good and what it is not.
The book is very well structured, filled with good examples, and even though I primarily is a Perl programmer I feel very confident as a programmer that I know what languages also can use XML-RPC since this book gives examples in a lot of different languages.
The book is easily read and sure MUST-HAVE for people working with web-services and need to be able to scale their platform, or make a few things smarter than they normally do - XML-RPC is the way.
My only problem with the book is that it is short - I actually read it on a Sunday, but well now I have a magnificent reference book.
Book is very good ...brief to the point .. good intro to rpc (8/8 people found this helpful)
I picked up this book from a friend who returned from usenix with it in hand. It was an oreilly book so immediatly I expected good things.
I was not dissappointed, this book is a book for programmers who wish to understand the xml-rpc protocol in depth, I myself am a java programmer and found that section of the book very good, my friend (a perl and python guy) also found his section to be equally good. I would reccommend this to any programmer who has an interest in calling remote procedures as this is an excellent introduction to this lightweight protocol.
If I sound pumped up about this book its because I am its concise and provides the neccessary information, a background in the programming languages they implement the examples in is assumed but an intro to xml and http is given and so you will not be found lacking in this area.
Buy it....
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