Setting up a test client was a breeze, but when the author gets to describing how to setup a server, the sample code is not adequately explained. The author then proceeds to list the code of a rather large integration solution implemented utilizing the server class.

Typically these books contain cut-n-paste examples to at least enable the reader to deploy the test code on their own box. Alas, no simple working example for the server is given: it is left to the reader to solve this themselves.

This could have been a speedy godsend to ease my learning curve, and was certainly worth the $4.99 for the chapter, but I would have been greatly disappointed had I purchased the book in entirety.

XMPRPC is like much OSS: very powerful, buy poorly documented. Cudos to the developer. A big BLEH for the documentation.

-c!