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What is the best Javascript XML-RPC client library in your opinion and why?

I'am making a JQuery app and I need to communicate with my xmlrpc server with it.

Found following libraries, but I have no idea what are their pros and cons:

http://www.zentus.com/js/xmlrpc.js.html

http://www.scottandrew.com/xml-rpc/

http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/jsxmlrpc/

http://www.vcdn.org/Public/XMLRPC/

http://mimic-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net/

+1  A: 

The protocol is rather easy, are you sure you need a library at all? Maybe just send the XML the protocol requires?

Emil Stenström
+1  A: 

I have tried http://www.zentus.com/js/xmlrpc.js.html myself. It has problems parsing the result in FireFox and Chrome, parsing the result in IE worked fine.

I have not tried the others, but 'mimic' looks great (if it works).

For my own problem, I've switched to JSON instead of XMLRPC.

theller
Actually I've switched to JSON also. Mainly because I need JSONP abilities. But any how, it would be nice read more comments about these.
Frank Bannister
+2  A: 

There is a Google-hosted library here: http://code.google.com/p/json-xml-rpc/. It supports both XML-RPC and JSON-RPC for JavaScript, and asynchronous as well as synchronous requests. I'm about to try out the XML-RPC for JavaScript myself with a JQuery UI and will update this based on my findings.

Chris B.
Seems that you cannot use XML-RPC protocol for cross-domain calls with this library. :(
Ries
else if(this.__protocol == 'XML-RPC') throw Error("Unable to use the XML-RPC protocol to access services on other domains.");
Ries
This seem to do the job very well. works on all major browsers. Great pair with Zope and Plone!
Epeli