Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

Why use XML-RPC instead of SOAP?

April 26, 2017Soap xml-rpc

0

Posted

Why use XML-RPC instead of SOAP?

1 Answer

0

Posted

If your clients and servers are all running in the .NET environment there is no point in using XML-RPC: .NET provides excellent support for SOAP and XML-RPC doesn’t have any features not provided by SOAP (other than simplicity). If you use .NET clients and want to connect to XML-RPC servers running under any OS then XML-RPC.NET is a good choice. If you want to implement a server in the .NET environment which is to be connected to by clients running in other environments, say Unix or Java, then XML-RPC may be an appropriate choice. SOAP is supported in many different environments but is considerably more complicated than XML-RPC and presents more opportunity for interop problems.