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Introduction

This page identifies areas of the OODT codebase where XMLRPC is currently used. It is part of the Google Summer of Code 2015 effort to replace OODT's XMLRPC codebase with AvroRPC.

Components

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The XMLRPC communication is already abstracted in the classes below. The Client and the Server interfaces share the same method signatures for the functionality. The Client side implementation serializes the operation requested by the caller and sends it the the Server side implementation. The Client class is in fact used as a proxy to the Server one. Specific to the XMLRPC implementation, the XMLRPC logic is used only for method call and parameter passing as String, the real parameter serialization is done with something independent of XMLRPC (Serializer).

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