How to notify JavaBlogs.com about blog updates with XML-RPC

Javablogs supports notification of blog updates with a remote API, which enables new blog post to appear on Javablogs immediately (javablogs API). I use blogger and as far as I can tell it doesn't support pinging javablogs.com. So i set out to write my own XML-RPC client to make my posts appear quickly (Yes I'm the impatient type).

Did a search for XML-RPC clients on the web and I found this open source Java library from Redstone. Downloaded the jar file and followed the instructions on Redstone page and the page describing the Weblogs API. I have to say when I started on this I didn't think it would be this easy but after about 10 minutes I had it working :).

Just add the following lines inside a main method and execute:

String weblogName = "Living Tao"; String weblogUrl = "http://livingtao.blogspot.com/"; //create a client pointing to the rpc service on javablogs XmlRpcClient client = new XmlRpcClient("http://javablogs.com/xmlrpc", true); //invoke the method to queue the blog for an update Object token = client.invoke("weblogUpdates.ping", new Object[] { weblogName, weblogUrl} ); System.out.println(token);

The code will out put the following result on successful execution:

{flError=0, message=Success. 1 blogs have been queued for update}