Thomas Smallwood wrote:
My next question will probably result in subjective responses but I'll ask it anyway: Is XML-RPC still a viable/reasonable solution for client/server communication or has it been replaced by something new and better?
I don't like it, as it is. But with some additional patches (see http://www.apache.org/~jochen/patches), I am quite happy with it. In particular, I have found the following to be important:
- Support for an up-to-date, JAXP 1.2 compliant parser. - Support for null values. - Support for byte, short, long, and float. - Support for objects implementing the Serializable interface.
That's, IMO, completely sufficient for the client/server protocol. Compared to J2EE, one thing is missing, though: Stub generation. But I have written that as well. :-) (See
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ws-jaxme/src/documentation/content/xdocs/js/apps/xmlrpc.xml?view=markup )
Jochen
