Summary
By design, this first look at XML-RPC programming in Java contained no details about the underlying XML delivered in each method call and returned value.
Apache XML-RPC makes this possible, as do other software libraries that support the protocol. Though it may prove helpful to extend your knowledge at some point into the nitty-gritty details of XML-RPC's data types, you can adopt the protocol entirely with techniques, data types, and classes in Java.
XML-RPC makes it possible to create web services with a small amount of coding, taking requests and exchanging information over the Internet, a home office network, or another environment.
If you branch out into another programming language, you're likely to find an XML-RPC implementation ...
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