xmlrpc introspection

[Andrew Dalke]

Graham Dumpleton:
> That this presents a problem is not so much a deficiency of the the
introspection
> API but that many XML-RPC server side implementations only really easily
allow
> you to have XML-RPC services hosted out of a single URL. To my mind,
different
> web services should not all be at the same URL if they do different
things.

There is a web services philosophy called ReST ("representational state
transfer", as I recall) which takes that viewpoint quite a bit further, so
that
the function calls of XML-RPC end up being requests to move from one
URL to another (which might be created on-demand).  Done that way,
the introspection shifts to using HTTP queries rather than XML-RPC on
top of  HTTP.

It's an interesting idea, but mostly irrelevant to this discussion.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com