Preamble Explanation of standard formats and protocols: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight1 data-interchange format with language bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL and many others. JSON-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol similar to XML-RPC although it uses the lightweight JSON format instead of […]
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XML was the data exchange format that was supposed to be the Holy Grail of information exchange mediums. SOAP was a protocol built around it that was supposed to make web-based communication robust, flexible, and… slow. While SOAP has been widely adopted and used in web-based applications, and while XML has […]