Introduction to XML-RPC and SOAP Programming Guide

Explains how to make remote procedure calls from applications or from AppleScript scripts.

Who Should Read This Document

To take full advantage of this document, you should be familiar with AppleScript, either through writing AppleScript scripts or creating scriptable applications. You can learn more about these topics in AppleScript Documentation . In particular, see AppleScript Overview and Apple Events Programming Guide .

You should also be familiar with the XML-RPC and SOAP protocols. You can find information on these protocols at third-party websites. For example, the XML-RPC specification is currently described at http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec and the SOAP specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/ .

Organization of This Document

This document is organized into the following chapters:

About AppleScript’s Support for XML-RPC and SOAP provides a brief introduction to the XML-RPC and SOAP protocols, then describes the scripting support in OS X version 10.1 (and later) for these protocols, including the syntax for script statements and the APIs for making remote procedure calls from applications or other code.

Making Remote Procedure Calls From Scripts provides sample scripts and step by step descriptions for making XML-RPC and SOAP requests from scripts.

Making Remote Procedure Calls From Applications provides sample code and step by step descriptions for making XML-RPC and SOAP requests from applications and other code.

Document Revision History describes the history of this book.