B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

Procedure
Name
Integration Patterns 85
Table 3.1. An example for RPC to retrieve customer information
Host: http://165.107.65.25/rpc Port: 8080
get_customer_info
I XML-RPC
Procedure Definition
Input
Request
Output
XML-RPC Response
Client Server
Figure 3.24. — RPC based on XML messages
Description
For a valid
customer_id, the
remote procedure
will return the
details of the
customer as a
struct type. The
structure will have
the following
fields:
firstname
lastname
phonenumber
faxnumber
e-mail
sends the results back to the client after encoding them as XML
messages. The client then decodes the XML message into standard
language data types and continues on.
As an example, let's consider the same example of a remote call for
retrieving customer information with XML-based communication.
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