XML-RPC News

	Apple: XML-RPC vs SOAP. Something to think about. If Google is actually going to have a SOAP interface, what would such an interface look like? What would it do? What would be the most valuable SOAP calls? Which way does information flow? Should they support the Weblogs.Com ping interface? (I think so.) Let your mind run free. I think most of us use Google daily through its HTML interface. What will its web services interface do? Testing categories and publishing. This morning I'm improving the MetaWeblog API. This post is coming from a script where I'm testing the code. It's an interesting way to write for a weblog. Back in a minute with some results. If this works you should see the post on the category pages, but not on the home page. NewsIsFree supports publish-subscribe. "Now the excellent NewsIsFree network, spearheaded by Mike Krus, a gutsy Frenchman who's always up for something new, includes a element in their RSS feeds and if you subscribe to those feeds, and if you're not behind a firewall or NAT, you can get instant news from those sources, not just at the top of the hour." JD Net: Description d'un client XML-RPC en Php. MIME-RPC: "Because sending simple stuff should be easy and sending complex stuff should be easy too." There's so much good news these days. Here's an article on Perl.Com that explains how to program Microsoft's Active Directory through XML-RPC, and avoid the locked trunks and have fun and support interop. Wow. Things are really sorting themselves out nicely. Thanks! Stop the presses! Thanks to Daily Python-URL for digging up this article about XML-RPC on IBM DeveloperWorks. What a great story. He starts off saying in every way imaginable what a piece of expletive it is. Then proceeds to say that this is the highest praise possible. Right on. It's true. We make shitty software. With bugs. Red Hat is using XML-RPC in a strategic way. That's cool. Cliff Baeseman: "Well the weather here in Central Wisconsin has been sucking for the last few days. So what else could I do but churn up about 4000 lines of code to create a new VB XML-RPC client that well frankly does not suck." Maarten Koopmans: Rugby 4.4exp with XML-RPC. Apache XML-RPC is a "Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls." Andreas Bolka has a third implementation of XML-RPC for Rebol. Blogger has a simple XML-RPC interface. Weblogs.Com has a simple XML-RPC interface. A new XML-RPC for Java called Marquée. Jon Udell: "Most of us, I guess, don't try to eat the whole XML layer cake, and would get sick if we tried." David Detlefsen is working on connecting Python to Manila through XML-RPC. Michael Montague is doing a version of Emacs that can edit Manila sites through XML-RPC. Chris Langreiter did an XML-RPC interface for an online image database. How the directory on XML-RPC.Com works. [Scripting News] Wire dumps: "This table shows an example request and response for each of the xmlStorageSystem calls, in both XML-RPC and SOAP 1.1." I created a directory for XML-RPC and edited the home page. [Scripting News] Eric Kidd, open source programmer par excellence, has an XML-RPC Hacks page, with lots of cool hacks, of course. [Scripting News] A new entry-point for xmlStorageSystem. [Scripting News] Heads up: A key difference between SOAP and XML-RPC. Charles Cook: XML-RPC for .NET 0.1.3. [Scripting News] Jabber.Org: Integration of full support for XML-RPC and SOAP. [Scripting News] Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland. We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312 DizzyD talks about Jabber as middleware. As I understand it, we could use Jabber to transport XML-RPC and SOAP messages. Instead of sending a procedure call to an IP address, or domain name, you'd send it to a Jabber user. This would allow us to design groupware applications that reach any desktop Jabber can get to, and it would allow you to move around. (You'd have to have the groupware software on every machine, though.) Michael Neumann: XML-RPC for Ruby. Important but small changes in the ManilaRPC interface, remove the requirement for base64 encoding and decoding in client apps. Intuit is operating an XML-over-HTTP programmable database called QuickBase. It's free. Interesting. A frequently asked question. What's the connection between SOAP and Jabber? It would be great to get a comparative review of these technologies by someone who's knows XML. Could Jabber have a SOAP or XML-RPC interface? If so, what would it look like? Does it make sense from the Jabber developer point of view? What would be the win? I don't have time to dig into this myself at this time but am interested in reading a comparison of the technologies. RFC: A Little IDL. "I decided to define a simple interface definition language in XML that's suitable for scripting environments, and see if people find holes in its functionality, or if it's useful, or something we want to do. It's little and human-readable. The goal is to have it work with scripting systems that are wired up to XML-RPC or SOAP 1.1." Eric Yeh: XML-RPC for Tcl. Client and server. Stop the presses. I just got a fantastic email from Eric Raymond with a draft of a chapter he's writing on the art of Unix programming. He says "XML-RPC is very much in the Unix spirit. It's deliberately minimalist but nevertheless quite powerful." My response. Christian Langreiter has validated XML-RPC client-server for K. Andrew Wooldridge: "Betty I could kiss you!" ZopeNewbies: It looks like the big boys are starting to use XMLRPC. Last night I installed RedHat 7. This morning, while mucking about the config files, I came across the one for RedHat's new auto-update tool. It queries a server at RedHat for a list of new updates available for your box, and you choose whether or not to install the updates. Anyway, it looks like that new service relies upon XMLRPC. Eric Kidd: XML-RPC Howto. "It includes sample clients and servers in Perl, Python, C, C++, Java and PHP. It shows you how to implement an XML-RPC server as a CGI, using either Perl or C." A tour-de-force. Dave Warner: XML-RPC: It Works Both Ways. Chris Melville: "Is there any automated way to take the IDL files I already have for the server (still written in C, IDL processed by Microsoft's MIDL.EXE) and generate XML-RPC definitions. I've got hundreds of interfaces in dozens of IDL files." Eric Kidd released XML-RPC for C/C++. Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS. DaveNet: Desktop Websites. Bård Farstad: Communicating with XML-RPC. "This is an implementation of the XML-RPC spesification written in object oriented PHP." Eric Kidd's asynchronous XML-RPC-in-C is working. Hey I just got an email from Eric Kidd saying that his open source XML-RPC-in-C stuff is starting to work. Yahoo! Radio is the first Web server to do upstreaming, a necessary feature for servers running on users' desktops. MailToTheFuture's XML-RPC interface. A Frontier script that uses this interface. Mary Jo Foley: Web services, few actually deliver. "Are the industry leaders onto a hot trend? Or are the emperors parading around without clothes?" Source: XML-RPC News; Updated: 2/25/2006.