the first implementation of an XML-RPC server endpoint within Venice...

also tweaked the session code to allow session types other than standard HTTP
cookie-based sessions.  The XML-RPC code doesn't do anything interesting yet.

etc/ui-config.xml

@@ -271,6 +271,17 @@
     </remap>
   </remapper>
 
+  <!-- Configuration for the RPC interfaces. -->
+  <rpc>
+    <xmlrpc-methods>
+      <method name="venice:test\.sumDifference">
+        <object class="com.silverwrist.venice.ui.rpc.XmlRpcTestHandler"/>
+        <env name="e1" value="foo"/>
+	<env name="p1" value="${param.0}"/>
+      </method>
+    </xmlrpc-methods>
+  </rpc>
+
   <!-- Contains standard messages displayed by front end -->
   <messages>
     <!-- The message displayed at the top of "top" when you're not logged in (HTML). -->

etc/web.xml

@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@
     <servlet-class>com.silverwrist.venice.ui.servlet.RemapperServlet</servlet-class>
   </servlet>
 
+  <servlet>
+    <servlet-name>XmlRpc</servlet-name>
+    <description>Handles XML-RPC calls for the application.</description>
+    <servlet-class>com.silverwrist.venice.ui.rpc.XmlRpcServlet</servlet-class>
+  </servlet>
+
   <!-- Servlet mappings -->
 
   <servlet-mapping>
@@ -182,6 +188,11 @@
     <url-pattern>/verifyemail</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
 
+  <servlet-mapping>
+    <servlet-name>XmlRpc</servlet-name>
+    <url-pattern>/RPC2</url-pattern>
+  </servlet-mapping>
+
   <!-- Global parameters for the HTTP session -->
   <session-config>
     <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>    <!-- 1 hour -->