What’s Next?

Now that you have a handle on RPC and XML-RPC, it’s time to take the next logical step. That step is SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP builds upon XML-RPC to add support for custom object types, better error reporting, and more features. It’s also quite the rage these days. In the next chapter, I’ll give you the lowdown so you’ll be prepared.

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