I have finally gotten around to learning a little about XML-RPC and SOAP.
In case you aren’t familiar with these buzzwords, they are basically protocols for getting data from remote programs. They use HTTP as the transport protocol, and XML for encapsulating the data. I always thought it sounded kind of complex, but it turns out to be fairly simple (especially since there are now tons of code libraries that handle the annoying parts).
I’m already envisioning all sorts of practical applications for my web development at work. We have lots of customers asking for ways to incorporate data from our systems into their own websites. This is going to be an easy way for me to add new services and data to those backend systems.
Can you tell that I’m hyped? Am I geeking out too much? Sorry…. It’s been a while since I’ve run across a software technology that got me excited.
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XML-RPC and other TLAs
I have finally gotten around to learning a little about XML-RPC and SOAP.
In case you aren’t familiar with these buzzwords, they are basically protocols for getting data from remote programs. They use HTTP as the transport protocol, and XML for encapsulating the data. I always thought it sounded kind of complex, but it turns out to be fairly simple (especially since there are now tons of code libraries that handle the annoying parts).
I’m already envisioning all sorts of practical applications for my web development at work. We have lots of customers asking for ways to incorporate data from our systems into their own websites. This is going to be an easy way for me to add new services and data to those backend systems.
Can you tell that I’m hyped? Am I geeking out too much? Sorry…. It’s been a while since I’ve run across a software technology that got me excited.
Related posts:
" At work, I think I’m about to get excited about Eclipse, a sort of uber-IDE that can use plug-ins for handling all sorts of..."
" Yeah, yeah — I haven’t written much this week. We have a big huge system conversion going on at work, and the project has..."
" If you’re a web developer, then hopefully you’ve already heard of Ruby on Rails and Ajax. If not, you’re behind the times, and you..."
" Writing perl unit tests which need to simulate a web browser with cookie support connecting to a server from multiple network interfaces is challenging...."
" Joel Webber has an excellent dissection of how Google Maps works under the hood in his Mapping Google article. Welcome to my blogroll. Highlights:..."