Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth. He is a contributing editor to [...] and an occasional contributor to [...].

Joe Johnston is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Boston with a B.A. in computer science, he is a teacher, web designer, and author of articles for Perl Journal, [...], and IBM's DeveloperWorks. Joe helps maintain the ASP XML-RPC library and wrote the Perl module Frontier:: [...].

Edd is Managing Editor of [...]. He also writes free software, and packages Bluetooth-related software for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Edd is the creator of XMLhack and WriteTheWeb, and has a weblog called Behind the Times.

Foreword;
Preface;
Audience;
Organization;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 What XML-RPC Does;
1.2 Where XML-RPC Excels;
1.3 A Quick Tour of the Minefields;
Chapter 2: The XML-RPC Protocol;
2.1 Choreography;
2.2 Data Types;
2.3 Request Format;
2.4 Response Format;
2.5 The Nil Value;
2.6 A DTD for XML-RPC;
Chapter 3: Client-Server Communication: XML-RPC in Java;
3.1 Why XML-RPC for Java?;
3.2 The XML-RPC Java Library;
3.3 Building XML-RPC Clients;
3.4 Building XML-RPC Servers;
3.5 Creating XML-RPC Handlers;
3.6 Three Practical Examples;
3.7 Moving Toward Cross-Platform Peer-to-Peer;
Chapter 4: XML-RPC and Perl;
4.1 Perl's Implementation of XML-RPC;
4.2 Data Types;
4.3 XML-RPC Clients;
4.4 XML-RPC Servers;
4.5 Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server;
Chapter 5: Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP;
5.1 Getting the XML-RPC Library for PHP;
5.2 Understanding the Client Classes;
5.3 Mapping Data Between PHP and XML-RPC;
5.4 Invoking Methods;
5.5 Building XML-RPC Servers in PHP;
5.6 Connecting Web Applications;
5.7 What PHP and XML-RPC Can Do;
Chapter 6: XML-RPC and Python;
6.1 Python Implementations of XML-RPC;
6.2 Installing PythonWare XML-RPC;
6.3 Data Types;
6.4 XML-RPC Clients;
6.5 XML-RPC Servers;
6.6 Integrating XML-RPC into a Web Server;
6.7 Using Zope as an XML-RPC Server;
Chapter 7: Bridging XML-RPC and COM: XML-RPC in ASP;
7.1 Using XML-RPC with ASP;
7.2 Making Active Server Pages More Active;
7.3 Data Types and the API;
7.4 Building an Address Book Web Service with ASP;
7.5 Talking to MS Access from Linux;
7.6 An XML-RPC Client in ASP;
7.7 Creating a Window to Linux;
7.8 Connections and Caveats;
Chapter 8: XML-RPC and the Web Services Landscape;
8.1 The Web Services Vision;
8.2 Public XML-RPC Services;
8.3 Design Considerations for Any XML-RPC Application;
8.4 Beyond XML-RPC;
8.5 Protocol Design Choices;
8.6 XML-RPC and Web Services;
The XML You Need for XML-RPC;
What is XML?;
Anatomy of an XML Document;
Character Encodings;
Validity;
Tools for Processing XML;
Is That All There Is?;
The HTTP You Need for XML-RPC;
A Bit About TCP/IP;
HTTP at the Start of the Web;
Adding Two-Way Communications;
Making Two-Way Communications Efficient;
Making the Infrastructure Do Something Different;
Infrastructure Details;
Colophon;