communication between remote applications and the Control Panel

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Hi,

How this XML API is helping in communication between remote applications and the Control Panel.

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well, for that you need to understand the XML API mechanism.

First of all a remote Java application calls CP methods to perform particular actions e.g to create an account or to return the list of domains.
For this, it invokes its SOAP client to form the corresponding XML request and to http it to the Control Panel.
Then, the CP SOAP server receives this XML request, parses the request and calls a target H-Sphere service.
The target H-Sphere service performs actions according to the received request (for example, creates an account or returns the list of domains), and responds via the SOAP server to the remote application.
If the request is incorrect, the SOAP server returns XML with SOAP fault.

Therefore, though HTTP is used for data transfer, H-Sphere XML API services are not called from a Web browser!