I'll try out this setEncoding() method in XML-RPC. If it works, that would be 
great.

That would allow us at least to garantee remote Java support. Remote clients 
should still be disuaded then from connecting through XML-RPC, as no garantee 
can be made that that remote client will understand the UTTF-8, as the spec 
doesn't allow for it.

On the other hand, I've also started using SOAP here for something else, and it 
seems pretty cool... I use Apache AXIS to do all the work and although it's 
still in alpha developmenmt stage, it seems to work really well (haven't really 
encountered any issues yet, even using Micro$oft VB clients...)

I think in any case, you first need a Java server-side API that is "RPC-able", 
as neither SOAP or XML-RPC really have support for "remote objects", the way 
CORBA or RMI do. The current server API still would require remote objects. 
Once this API has been made (i.e. only serializable objects are used as 
parameters and return values in methods), making SOAP or XML-RPC of it should 
be a matter of applying the tools provided with either the XML-RPC or SOAP 
toolkit...


James


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 10 March 2002 01:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: XML-RPC and moving on...
> 
> 
> XML-RPC:
> 
> I don't really remember where we left off on the discussion about
> using XML-RPC on the internals and on the external interface, but
> I've been doing some work with Apache XML-RPC and found
> that it does in fact allow for UTF-8 encoding by calling
> 
> XmlRpc.setEncoding("UTF8");
> 
> I haven't dug into enough XML-RPC client implementations to
> see how many also support UTF-8, but I'm assuming that probably
> most do (?).
> 
> Moving on:
> 
> Where/how/who do we go from here?  I'm still a little gun-shy to
> tear into the internals right now until I have some more time 
> to become
> more familiar with the existing code.  I guess what I'd like 
> to see is the
> list that Kimbro came up with a while back with some priorities, etc..
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> 
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