Resources

• Userland's XML-RPC home page (http://xmlrpc.com) is, naturally, the place to start investigating XML-RPC. Many useful resources can be found there.
  
  
• While at the XML-RPC home page, it is particularly worthwhile to investigate the tutorial and article links they provide (http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/tutorialspress).
  
  
• Kate Rhodes has written a nice comparison called "XML-RPC vs. SOAP" (http://weblog.masukomi.org/writings/xml-rpc_vs_soap.htm). In it, she points to a number of details that belie SOAP's description as a "lightweight" protocol.
  
  
• Richard P. Gabriel wrote the rather famous paper "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big" (http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles//good-news/good-news.htm). What everyone reads and refers to is the section called "The Rise of 'Worse is Better'".
  
  
• The O'Reilly title Programming Web Services with XML-RPC (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progxmlrpc/), by Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, and Edd Dumbill, is quite excellent. Its spirit matches that of XML-RPC itself.
  
  
• xml_pickle can be found at: http://gnosis.cx/download/xml_pickle.py.
  
  
• The associated DTD lives at: http://gnosis.cx/download/PyObjects.dtd.
  
  
• Secret Lab's xmlrpc Python module can be found at: http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/index.htm.
  
  
• If you want to know how IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) supports XML development, see this technical background info on XML in the WAS Advanced Edition 3.5 online help.
  
  
• WebSphere Studio Application Developer includes an integrated visual developement environment for both XML and Java. Find out more on the WebSphere Developer Domain Studio zone.
  
  
• Find other articles in David Mertz's XML Matters column.