[Ngoid-dev] xml-rpc for communications

[Ashvil <as...@i3...>]

There is a new version of SOAP out
http://develop.com/SOAP/
http://static.userland.com/xmlRpcCom/soap/SOAPv11.htm

For those who are unfamiliar with SOAP here is the official line :

SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a
decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol
that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for
describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of
encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined
datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls
and responses.

It looks like this protocol may become a standard in the future.
However, the standard looks to be in flux and there does not seem to
be a lot of implementations of the protocol.

We need a protocol that lets the Application servers query the
indexing servers, for the Authoring servers to ask the indexing
servers to index the data.

There is another protocol called xml-rpc and the information is
available at xml-rpc.com. This protocol is more widely supported and
we should be able to use these modules directly. This would also
benefit other people trying to talk to our indexing servers as they
would be using a standard. I think we should consider using this
atleast until SOAP becomes a standard and has lots of implementations.

Comments. Suggestions. Anyone has experience or knows people who have
used xml-rpc before ?

Thanks to all the participants in this project.

Regards,
Ashvil