DO NOT REPLY [Bug 16383] New: - Bring SimpleXmlRpcClient up to date with the rest of the codebase

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Bring SimpleXmlRpcClient up to date with the rest of the codebase

           Summary: Bring SimpleXmlRpcClient up to date with the rest of the
                    codebase
           Product: XML-RPC
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Source
        AssignedTo: rpc-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: rhoegg@isisnetworks.net


Several open bugs can be resolved by updating SimpleXmlRpcClient to use the more
up to date codebase in o.a.xmlrpc.  Those bugs will be marked as a duplicate of
this bug.

SimpleXmlRpcClient is a thin wrapper around an inner class XmlRpcSupport, which
itself has an inner class XmlWriter.  XmlRpcSupport does all the work that
XmlRpc and XmlWriter do in the base package.

To rewrite SimpleXmlRpcClient, we should first identify its purpose relative to
the current XmlRpcClient and XmlRpcClientLite classes.  As it is in the
o.a.xmlrpc.applet package, I imagine it is supposed to be a painless XML-RPC
client for use in applets.  So the only differences this class should have from
our other client classes are changes that affect download size (when we break
this out into its own JAR) and compatibility with browser JVMs.