Curiouser and Curiouser! on xml-rpc http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic xml-rpc Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Java XML-RPC Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:25:14 +0100 <P>I've not done anything Java wise for a couple of months but, partly to keep my hand in, and partly because I think it's easier I've been thinking about using an applet or Java WebStart application for managing the topic information in liveTopics.&nbsp; This leads to some questions:</P> <P>What's the best XML-RPC implementation for Java at the moment?</P> <P>For a simple API is XML-RPC a better bet than SOAP?</P> <P>Is it safe to use Swing in applets these days?</P> <P>What are the relative advantages/disadvanages of JWS over Applets?&nbsp; Maybe even thinlets?</P> <P>And what IDE should I be using (I used to use JBuilder)</P> <P>Can anyone help me out?</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000448.html XML-RPC does the trick, IDEA maybe Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:56:23 +0100 <DIV> <P><EM>What's the best XML-RPC implementation for Java at the moment?</EM></P> <P>Apache XML-RPC (originally Helma) - <A href="http://xml.apache.org/xmlrpc/"><A href="http://xml.apache.org/xmlrpc/">http://xml.apache.org/xmlrpc/</A></A></P> <P><EM>For a simple API is XML-RPC a better bet than SOAP?</EM></P> <P>No - build it using <A href="http://www.themindelectric.com/glue">Glue</A>, it's SOAP made easy for Java. It's a dream to use. And free for most uses.</P> <P><EM>Is it safe to use Swing in applets these days?</EM></P> <P>Wrong person to ask. <IMG height=11 src="http://static.userland.com/shortcuts/images/qbullets/sidesmiley.gif" width=11 align=absMiddle></P> <P><EM>What are the relative advantages/disadvanages of JWS over Applets?&nbsp; Maybe even thinlets?</EM></P> <P>Complex question. Thinlets are only really good for small tasks, but are very rapid to develop. JWS is easy to write and 'deploy' any Swing app anywhere. I'd say JWS Swing is better than applets, but I'm biased.</P> <P><EM>And what IDE should I be using (I used to use JBuilder)</EM></P> <P>Easy - <A href="http://www.intellij.com/">IDEA</A>. </P></DIV> <P>[<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0107789/">rebelutionary</A>]</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>» Okay I'm finally catching up on all the news I haven't read for a few days.&nbsp; Some interesting points from Mike.</P> <P>As luck would have it Apache XML-RPC is the one I ended up downloading.&nbsp; I had it hooked up to Radio and exchanging data in about as long as it took me to type this sentence, that was pretty cool.</P> <P>I also choose to re-evaluate IDEA.&nbsp; I actually came across this IDE a long time ago when I was using some of their refactoring tools for JBuilder.&nbsp; At the time I dismissed it because (a) it didn't do very much that the free <A href="http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net/">JRefactory</A> tool couldn't already do, and, (b) I was doing GUI stuff and JBuilder does that.</P> <P>I like a lot of what I see in IDEA and it's certainly a lot cheaper than JBuilder.&nbsp; I just wonder how I'll hack the GUI bits and pieces without a visual designer...</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000474.html Word escape velocity attained at last! Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:22:41 +0100 <blockquote><a href="http://www.sockdrawer.org/blog/archives/000012.php">Using Open Office to convert MS Word documents</a>. Rickard Öberg recently posted a request for suggestions about using Java to convert MS word docs into HTML. I have been doing some work on this lately using the freely availiable, open-source OpenOffice.org to do the hard parts, making calls... [<a href="http://www.sockdrawer.org/blog/">sockdrawer.org</a>]<br> </blockquote> <br> Paul has done some very craft work here -- many people want to solve this problem.<br> <br> In fact it's a problem that he and I worked on last year.&nbsp; At that time we were looking for out of the box tools to do the job and not getting very far with it.&nbsp; Since then he's cooked up a clever solution by implementing RPC with an OpenOffice server.&nbsp; Neat!!<br> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002129.html The attractive side of XML-RPC Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:39:52 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/">XML-RPC</a> is a neat way of hooking up processes on different computers and operating systems. Now I find there is a <a href="http://www.ditchnet.org/xmlrpc/">neat client for MacOSX too</a>! You fill in the endpoint URL, the method name, and the parameters (using Javascript syntax). The client then shows you in separate tabs: the request XML, the response XML, and the response displayed as a property hash. Looks very handy for XML-RPC debugging.</p> <p>My only request at this point would be a way to save &amp; reload queries.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003216.html