Applications Messaging Standard

[John Taylor]

On 17 Feb 2007, at 16:35, Doug Tody wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tony Linde wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> I don't know about others but I'm not sure of the terms you're  
>> using. It'd
>> be useful if you could add an eg to the terms to help muggles like  
>> me follow
>> you. Eg, is xml-rpc a wire protocol or interface or what?
>
> XML-RPC, JSON, etc. are wire protocols.  You can transmit the same
> information with either.
>

To be pedantic that's not strictly true: JSON is an object encoding,  
it doesn't specify how the data get from A to B.  So it's no more a  
wire protocol than XML is.
Also, the XML encoding used in XML-RPC is not directly translatable  
to JSON as the latter lacks many of XML-RPC's types.

John