Date: Jul. 29, 2001
Link: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/07/18/excerpt/xml-rpc.html
Source Author or Organization: Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly and Associates

This is an excerpt from the book Programming Web Services with XML-RPC, published by O'Reilly and Associates, a book that covers Web services development with Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC).

XML-RPC is a simple but powerful utilization of XML over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). XML-RPC implementations can utilize many different programming languages including: Perl, Python, Active Server Pages (ASP), and PHP or Java.

This chapter explores the use of PHP for development of XML-RPC server and client applications, building back-end systems using XML-RPC as middleware, and adding XML-RPC interfaces to existing Web services.