Mark Allman. An Evaluation of XML-RPC. ACM Performance Evaluation Review, 30(4), March 2003.
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Abstract:

This paper explores the complexity and performance of the XML-RPC system for remote method invocation. We de- veloped a program that can use either XML-RPC-based net- work communication or a hand-rolled version of networking code based on the java.net package. We first compare our two implementations using traditional object-oriented metrics. In addition, we conduct tests over a local network and the Inter- net to assess the performance of the two versions of the net- working code using traditional internetworking metrics. We find that XML-RPC reduces the programming complexity of the software by roughly 50% (across various metrics). On the other hand, the hand-rolled java.net-based implementation of- fers up to an order of magnitude better network performance in some of our tests.

BibTeX:

@article{All03b,
    author  =        "Mark Allman",
    title   =        "{An Evaluation of XML-RPC}",
    journal =        "ACM Performance Evaluation Review",
    year    =        2003,
    volume  =        30,
    number  =        4,
    month   =        mar,
}