Today’s XML-RPC is exactly as it was 10 years ago, which, if you were developing XML-RPC apps means that your apps still work, and that’s a good thing. Nothing that’s come along before or since rivals XML-RPC for simplicity and utility.

False. Just plain false. Dave believes that it’s true because he uses an ancient piece of software that does nothing but XML-RPC, but the “simple” fact of the matter is that, from the ground up, nothing is more simple than REST is. Take a look.

Here’s a sample XML-RPC request:

< ?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodcall>
   <methodname>examples.getStateName</methodname> 
      <params> 
         <param> <value><i4>41</i4></value> </param> 
      </params> 
</methodcall>

There’s a lot of complexity there. Just take a look and try to imagine that you’ve never seen XML-RPC before. Now let’s take a look at REST.

http://url.com/MethodName?param=value

Oh, yeah, Dave. XML-RPC is sooo much simpler.