A Client For The XML-RPC Servlet

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        // When combined with the Apache XML-RPC library this code
// will let you call the servlet in the snippet "An XML-RPC
// Servlet". Of course, since XML-RPC is pretty ubiquitous
// you can also use this code to call servers in dozens of
// other languages as well.

import java.util.Vector;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient;

public class XMLRPCTestClient {
    private static final String serverAddress = 
	"http://localhost:8080/lol/remoteapi";
    private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(XMLRPCTestClient.class);
    
    /** Creates a new instance of XMLRPCTestClient */
    public XMLRPCTestClient(String address) {
        try {
            XmlRpcClient xmlrpc = new XmlRpcClient(address);

            Vector params = new Vector();
            params.addElement("Hello World! Hello!");

            try {
                // this method returns a string
                String result = (String) xmlrpc.execute("echo.echo", params);
                System.out.println(result);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                log.error("The remote procedure call failed.", e);
            }
        } catch (java.net.MalformedURLException mue) {
            log.error(
                "The address given for the XML-RPC interface is bad: " + address);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        XMLRPCTestClient xmlRPCTestClient = new XMLRPCTestClient(
            serverAddress);
    }
}

Tags:
• API
• client
• java
• remote
• servlet
• xml-rpc