Sun's use of "XML RPC"

Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:43:57 -0800
From:      Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
To:        xml-rpc@egroups.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org, "XML-Dev (E-mail)" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject:   Sun's use of "XML RPC"

Please check out this Sun Microsystems document:

http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/jsr_101_xrpc.html.

Their marketing materials are highly disrespectful of the XML-RPC community, which has the largest deployed implementation of XML-over-HTTP technology, and has been in existence for almost three years. In their Contributions section, Sun points to everything else in this space, but not to XML-RPC. Here's a screen shot of that section.

http://www.scripting.com/images/sunLikesOurNameButWontPoint.gif

The first document they point to, the W3C survey of existing technologies, points directly to:

http://www.xmlrpc.com/

as the first item in the list.

Professionally and ethically I don't think Sun has a leg to stand on. At this point in the evolution of open distributed computing standards, to omit XML-RPC says more about Sun's fear than it does about the quality of work and broad support of XML-RPC.

Sun mentions that they have the support of the following companies: Allaire, Apple, ATG, BEA, Bowstreet, Commerce One, HP/Bluestone, iPlanet, SilverStream, webMethods. I know technologists at these companies and consider them to have the highest ethics and integrity. Please correct this omission, Sun, and stop using the "XML-RPC" term in a generic fashion. Show the respect that is appropriate for a spec that so many independent developers are using. Thanks.

Dave

Dave Winer, UserLand Software
Daily notes: http://www.scripting.com/
"It's even worse than it appears."

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See "XML-RPC."

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