Status?

[David Griffiths]

Hi, what is the status of this project?
It doesn't look good from a newcomers point of view:
If I go to http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/mail-lists.html and click on the
Archive links, the links are broken.
When I download the distribution and follow the instructions by simply 
typing "ant" I get:

/home/dgriff/xmlrpc-1.2-b1> ant
Buildfile: build.xml
env:
      [echo] java.home = c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02\jre
      [echo] user.home = C:\Documents and Settings\Dave Griffiths
      [echo] jsse.jar = ${jsse.jar}
      [echo] jnet.jar = ${jnet.jar}
      [echo] jcert.jar = ${jcert.jar}
      [echo] servlet.jar = ${servlet.jar}
      [echo] junit.jar = ${junit.jar}
init:
prepare:
     [mkdir] Created dir: C:\cygwin\home\dgriff\xmlrpc-1.2-b1\${build.dir}
     [mkdir] Created dir: C:\cygwin\home\dgriff\xmlrpc-1.2-b1\${build.dest}
compile:
BUILD FAILED
C:\cygwin\home\dgriff\xmlrpc-1.2-b1\build.xml:137: srcdir
"C:\cygwin\home\dgriff\xmlrpc-1.2-b1\${src.dir}" does not exist!
Total time: 0 seconds
I could mess around and fix these but it kind of suggests that
the project is a bit neglected, is that fair?
Is everyone using SOAP now? I'm not trolling, I'm trying to figure out 
whether to use SOAP or xml-rpc. I prefer the simplicity of xml-rpc but 
it's a bit offputting if the Apache Java implementation won't build out 
of the box!

Thanks,
Dave