Originally posted by Steven Wong:
The response will not be using the XML-RPC response format, but instead will be an XML stream of the object(s) requested.
As I do not have access to the actual assignment, I can only base my suggestion on the text you have provided. I suspect that
The request follows the XML-RPC specification. The response does not follow the XML-RPC specification but instead simply returns the result in some custom format. It may be a JavaBean encoded with XMLEncoder or it could be something totally homegrown - not java related - I can't tell from the information here. An easy introduction to XML-RPC can be found on the
Processing XML with Java site, particularly the
XML-RPC,
A Simple XML-RPC Client and
A DOM based XML-RPC servlet sections.
On an architectural level I believe you would just acknowledge in your design that you would need to include a proprietary or custom designed component/library that deals with the non-standard data
exchange protocol.
[ October 01, 2005: Message edited by: Peer Reynders ]