Is there a build out there that utilizes HttpClient? Karl
-----Original Message----- From: Jochen Wiedmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Status of apache xmlrpc 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 client/server communication or has it been replaced by something new 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/j s/apps/xmlrpc.xml?view=markup ) Jochen
