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JAX-RPC

Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) is intended to be a Java API to expose remote procedure calls that use XML to business applications that occur primarily, though not exclusively, on the periphery of organizations. The need for such synchronous API increases as corporations begin to communicate with other business partners using disparate hardware and software systems.

Remote procedure call (RPC) has been around for a while, with many implementations. It essentially enables clients to work with remote procedures, or routines, that reside on different machines just as if the procedures were executed locally. In its simplest form, a client calls a procedure, with the name of the procedure and the arguments; the server does ...

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