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One of the features touted by Magento is the api exposed via both XML-RPC and SOAP. I quickly (and successfully) tested the SOAP interface using the amazingly complete (and free) soapUI. I wanted to use XML-RPC, and decided to build a test client in Java. While trying to build a client, using the apache ws-xmlrpc library, I ran into a roadblock. The initial login and some other calls would work just fine, but some calls such as product.info would always cause an exception, similar to:

"The items in the footer area are in two different locations. One part is a static block created within the magento admin area (CMS > Static Block). The other part is held in the related .phtml / .php / .xml files within the design files."

"The internal Magento package builder is all very well and good for getting your basic package.xml generated, and defining your file lists, but it is cumbersome to use and can't be integrated into a build process very easily. Magento extends the PEAR tool to provide a mp (make package) function which replaces the package and package-validate commands. Here's how to build your package. You'll notice that I refer to the pear program as ./pear throughout this article. This is because we're using Magento's version, with the Magento Team's modifications applied. The ./pear is found in the root of your Magento installation."