# XML-RPC Compatability

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-compatability/53588>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-compatability/53588 "2006-02-10T19:13:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-compatability/53588/1 "2006-02-10T19:13:33Z")

</div>

I know that this isn’t a Ruby subject, but since my XML-RPC server is  
hosted using Ruby’s implementation I figured someone might run across  
this sooner or later. I am able to talk to it using various clients  
based in Ruby, Smalltalk, and Python. But using Java clients I kept on  
getting null responses back from its parser classes. This was trying an  
adaptation of the Apache XML-RPC 1.0 library and kXML-RPC. If anyone  
runs into similar compatibility issues perhaps check out my thread  
posted to c.l.j.p newsgroup →   
[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse\_frm/thread/dc1ba373f3d4db03/17afabae3212fe19#17afabae3212fe19](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_frm/thread/dc1ba373f3d4db03/17afabae3212fe19#17afabae3212fe19).  
After a week of banging my head against the wall and viewing XML-RPC  
traffic with a sniffer I finally got things working…