XML-RPC is a way to do Remote Procedure Calls using XML standard. So this is much like RMI, except that it's totally language/architecture independent.

SOAP is a revised version of XML-RPC. Some say it's evolved, some say that SOAP is needlessly complicated.

See also: TranscludePlugin (include remote wiki pages via XML-RPC)

Resources#

• XML-RPC home page at http://www.xmlrpc.org
• Apache XML toolkit for Java at http://xml.apache.org/xmlrpc/
• kXML-RPC is J2ME implementation of XML-RPC protocol at http://kxmlrpc.enhydra.org (you also might want to see kXML, their XML parser for J2ME)