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From: "Shimon Crown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:22 AM
Subject: Newbie - Is this a good idea and where is the source code for this
project ?
> Recently I developed an applet that takes data from a web server either by
RMI or if not available by SOAP. The SOAP was simple enough to do using the
Apache product. However I was horrified to see the amount of baggage I
have to carry for SOAP (something like over 1MB of junk - most of which I
don't need). So I thought of looking at XML-RPC as an alternative. My first
obstacle to using XML-RPC is that I use a few user defined types in my code.
I could rewrite the interface to remove these types but I would much prefer
to develop my own handler as this wouldn't allow a similar interface for
both SOAP and XML-RPC.
>
> Okay so know my questions are :
>
> 1) Is this a good idea - It may break some of the generic nature of
XML-RPC but I don't really need this as I have the SOAP for this anyway.
> 2) Where can I get source code for this project. I may be blind but I
don't see it any source for Invoker in the downloads or CVS.
Shimon,
Do you want to add new tags to the XML-RPC message (which would break
interoperability, of course) or do you want to write a set of custom
serialiser/deserialiser for each of your types? Either is possible but the
second option means that you are not forking the code base.
The code is available under CVS at cvs.apache.org /home/cvspublic in the
xml-rpc stream.
John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
http://www.wilson.co.uk
