Thankyou for your answer. I do not understand what you mean by a set of objects linked in an arbitrary graph, can you explain this more?
Thanks, Tim Heath John Wilson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:48 PM > Subject: Re: xml-rpc webservices? > > > Does it implement a global registry for searching for kinds of services, > > the way uddi works? Does it allow you to publish your service to a > > central directory the way uddi does? I appreciate your answer and my > > knowledge on soap/xml is increasing. Just out of curiousity what would > > be an example of where rpc/xml would not be able to do something > > requiring soap/xml? > > There is no standard way of implementing a directory of XML-RPC services. > There have been ad hoc attempts to provide such a service but I don't think > they are widely used. In XML-RPC you know your endpoints and you know what > the endpoint expects. You don't have discovery or dynamic binding. > > You might be interested in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progxmlrpc/ and > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progwebsoap/ as two views of how to implement > Web services. > > If you wanted to use an asynchronous messaging service as a transport > mechanism (e.g. IBM's MQ series) then SOAP has the support for this built > in. XML-RPC does not (though http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0009.html is an > example of an extension which kind of does this). > > If you wanted to pass a set of objects linked in an arbitrary graph then > SOAP will (sort of) let you do it. XML-RPC will not. > > John Wilson > The Wilson Partnership > http://www.wilson.co.uk
