From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-07-02T15:27:47+09:00
Subject: XMLRPC::CGIServer nuby

Hi all,

I'm familiar with how to setup a standalone XMLRPC server, but I'm
curious about XMLRPC::CGIServer.  Is this something that allows you to
slap rpc call results back to a webpage or something?  I wasn't clear
from the examples in the documentation.  I mean, how do you use this
thing?

I'm a CGI/web noob, in case you couldn't tell.  I normally don't deal
with it, but I feel compelled to demonstrate to my coworkers that the
ridiculously bloated J2EE web service I'm working on can be reduced
significantly with Ruby.  However, I need a little web interface for
"visual evidence" as it were.

If I'm off base, is there any sort of automated way to create an
XMLRPC server that will autogenerate a simple web page with links to
each handler?  Then, each of those links would be a simple form where
I can pass values to the service and get results back in a web page? 
Sorta like WebLogic does?

Am I making sense?

Help appreciated.  Thanks.

Dan