Many regard the ability to access a web application directly from a remote script or a program running on any platform as the "next big thing." XML-RPC (Extensible Markup Language- Remote Procedure Call) does just this, allowing developers to open objects or "web services" to the Internet and easily recombine web services to create dynamic, content-intensive web sites. Programming Web Applications with XML-RPC puts developers firmly in control of the XML-RPC protocol, for a simple way to create and use powerful web services today. They'll be able to expose the functionality of a web site in a variety of programming environments and use such web services to build more complex applications. This is the book for leading-edge developers who want to experiment now with an exciting new way of doing business on the Web.
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 XMLhack.com and an occasional contributor to XML.com.
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, Perl.com, and IBM's DeveloperWorks. Joe helps maintain the ASP XML-RPC library and wrote the Perl module Frontier::Responder.pm.
Edd is Managing Editor of XML.com. 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.