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Introduction - Zend_XmlRpc
From its ยป home page, XML-RPC is described as a "...remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned."
Zend Framework provides support for both consuming remote XML-RPC services and building new XML-RPC servers.