Reviews for Programming Web Services with XML-RPC

1. XML-RPC is the way, this book is a MUST-HAVE

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2002

   Having been involved for more a year in a project where we developed a platform based on an XML-RPC like functionality I wish I could have read this book at the time before we begun. Not that we did anything wrong, but this book really gives a concise picture of what XML-RPC is good and what it is not.

   The book is very well structured, filled with good examples, and even though I primarily is a Perl programmer I feel very confident as a programmer that I know what languages also can use XML-RPC since this book gives examples in a lot of different languages.

   The book is easily read and sure MUST-HAVE for people working with web-services and need to be able to scale their platform, or make a few things smarter than they normally do - XML-RPC is the way.

   My only problem with the book is that it is short - I actually read it on a Sunday, but well now I have a magnificent reference book.

2. Book is very good ...brief to the point .. good intro to rpc

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2001

   I picked up this book from a friend who returned from usenix with it in hand. It was an oreilly book so immediatly I expected good things.

   I was not dissappointed, this book is a book for programmers who wish to understand the xml-rpc protocol in depth, I myself am a java programmer and found that section of the book very good, my friend (a perl and python guy) also found his section to be equally good. I would reccommend this to any programmer who has an interest in calling remote procedures as this is an excellent introduction to this lightweight protocol.

   If I sound pumped up about this book its because I am its concise and provides the neccessary information, a background in the programming languages they implement the examples in is assumed but an intro to xml and http is given and so you will not be found lacking in this area.

   Buy it....