Tables of Contents for Programming Web Services With Xml-Rpc

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Tables of Contents for Programming Web Services With Xml-Rpc

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Foreword

ix

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

9

What XML-RPC Does

2

3

Where XML-RPC Excels

5

1

A Quick Tour of the Minefields

6

4

The XML-RPC Protocol

10

23

Choreography

10

3

Data Types

13

7

Request Format

20

6

Response Format

26

5

The Nil Value

31

1

A DTD for XML-RPC

31

2

Client-Server Communication: XML-RPC in Java

33

31

Why XML-RPC for Java?

34

2

The XML-RPC Java Library

36

5

Building XML-RPC Clients

41

2

Building XML-RPC Servers

43

4

Creating XML-RPC Handlers

47

4

Three Practical Examples

51

12

Moving Toward Cross-Platform Peer-to-Peer

63

1

XML-RPC and Perl

64

25

Perl's Implementation of XML-RPC

65

1

Data Types

66

7

XML-RPC Clients

73

7

XML-RPC Servers

80

6

Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server

86

3

Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP

89

28

Getting the XML-RPC Library for PHP

90

1

Understanding the Client Classes

90

1

Mapping Data Between PHP and XML-RPC

91

5

Invoking Methods

96

4

Building XML-RPC Servers in PHP

100

5

Connecting Web Applications

105

11

What PHP and XML-RPC Can Do

116

1

XML-RPC and Python

117

23

Python Implementations of XML-RPC

117

1

Installing Python Ware XML-RPC

118

1

Data Types

118

4

XML-RPC Clients

122

3

XML-RPC Servers

125

11

Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server

136

3

Using Zope as an XML-RPC Server

139

1

Bridging XML-RPC and COM: XML-RPC in ASP

140

27

Using XML-RPC with ASP

140

2

Making Active Server Pages More Active

142

2

Data Types and the API

144

2

Building an Address Book Web Service with ASP

146

8

Talking to MS Access from Linux

154

2

An XML-RPC Client in ASP

156

5

Creating a Window to Linux

161

3

Connections and Caveats

164

3

XML-RPC and the Web Services Landscape

167

12

The Web Services Vision

167

1

Public XML-RPC Services

168

1

Design Considerations for Any XML-RPC Application

169

2

Beyond XML-RPC

171

4

Protocol Design Choices

175

2

XML-RPC and Web Services

177

2

The XML You Need for XML-RPC

179

14

The HTTP You Need for XML-RPC

193

14

Index

207