This is a simple XML-RPC interface for Xindice. It defines most of the basic database operations used against collections and documents. Configuring Xindice: 1. Copy the apache-xmlrpc.jar and xindice-xmlrpc-0.6.jar files from the distribution lib directory into $XINDICE_HOME/java/lib. 2. Add the XMLRPCHandler to your Xindice configuration. To do this you must edit $XINDICE_HOME/config/system.xml. Right after the line that looks like You should add this line. 3. Start Xindice as usual and you should see the following show up among the startup messages. Filter: 'XMLRPCHandler' added to filtering chain If you don't get this message double check your configuration. From here the server is ready and you should look at the users guide to see how to call the new XML-RPC methods exposed by the server.