XML-RPC is a protocol. (SOAP is a protocol, CORBA is a protocol) Web Services are just "self desccribing applications that can discover and engage ther web application to complete complex tasks over the Internet" (SUN) To implement Web Services, the "industry-chosen protocol" (whatever it means) is SOAP.
So the default way is to develop SOAP web services, instead of XML-RPC Web Services [ October 01, 2003: Message edited by: Jean-Louis Marechaux ]
Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat: I understand the following XML RPC does not use SOAP (it send the request in HTTP post body) So why do we need Webservice?
SOAP and the related standards provide a more rich feature-set than plain XML-RPC. Nobody's questioning the value of J2EE application servers based on the fact that we've got Apache HTTP Server
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