XML-RPC takes web technology in a new direction, giving you a new way to create simple,

but powerful, connections between different kinds of programs. After wasting more hours than

I care to admit developing and documenting network formats used to exchange relatively

simple kinds of information between programs, I was very happy to discover XML-RPC. It

would have made all that work much easier.

Whether you integrate systems within a single network or provide services and information to

the public as a whole, XML-RPC provides critical layers of abstraction that make it simple to

connect different kinds of computing systems without needing to create new standards for

every application. Because XML-RPC is built on commonly available HTTP and XML

technologies, the costs of implementing it are low. Because XML-RPC focuses sharply on

solving a particular kind of problem -- making procedure calls across a network -- it is very

easy to learn and implement across a wide variety of systems.-XML-RPC takes web technology in a new direction, giving you a new way to create simple,

but powerful, connections between different kinds of programs. After wasting more hours than

I care to admit developing and documenting network formats used to exchange relatively

simple kinds of information between programs, I was very happy to discover XML-RPC. It

would have made all that work much easier.　

Whether you integrate systems within a single network or provide services and information to

the public as a whole, XML-RPC provides critical layers of abstraction that make it simple to

connect different kinds of computing systems without needing to create new standards for

every application. Because XML-RPC is built on commonly available HTTP and XML

technologies, the costs of implementing it are low. Because XML-RPC focuses sharply on

solving a particular kind of problem-- making procedure calls across a network-- it is very

easy to learn and implement across a wide variety of systems.