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i think if you bombard this link (listed at the top of the forum)
"Please use the mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-general rather than this forum. "
with your version that you are writing for you may get a lead on what your doing.

I haven't been able to find any informative material about the "Enable Web Services" setting in the Global Configuration.

Obviously the setting enables Joomla's xmlrpc server.

Now what? All I have come across, describing how anyone uses it, is that Blogger publishers use the Blogger XML-RPC plugin to insert content into J!.

What about the stock plugin? It's not documented anywhere.

I want applications to connect to J! webservices and retrieve J! data. Does the XML-RPC server support this already? Or would I have to write a plugin?

Which stock plugin are you referring to? Does that plugin implement any xml-rpc methods?

joomla.searchSite
Searches a remote site.
# @return: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.getUsersBlogs
Returns a list of weblogs to which an author has posting privileges.
# @return: array
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.getUserInfo
Returns information about an author in the system.
# @return: struct
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.getPost
Returns information about a specific post.
# @return: struct
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.getRecentPosts
Returns a list of the most recent posts in the system.
# @return: array
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: int

blogger.getTemplate

# @return: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.setTemplate

# @return: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string

blogger.newPost
Creates a new post and optionally publishes it.
# @return: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: boolean

blogger.deletePost
Deletes a post.
# @return: boolean
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: boolean

blogger.editPost
Updates the information about an existing post.
# @return: boolean
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: string
# @param: boolean

system.listMethods
This method lists all the methods that the XML-RPC server knows how to dispatch
# @return: array

system.methodHelp
Returns help text if defined for the method passed, otherwise returns an empty string
# @return: string
# @param: string

system.methodSignature
Returns an array of known signatures (an array of arrays) for the method name passed. If no signatures are known, returns a none-array (test for type != array to detect missing signature)
# @return: array
# @param: string

system.multicall
Boxcar multiple RPC calls in one request. See http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1208 for details
# @return: array
# @param: array

system.getCapabilities
This method lists all the capabilites that the XML-RPC server has: the (more or less standard) extensions to the xmlrpc spec that it adheres to
# @return: struct

It seems that you have built XML-rpc webservice. Any information about JSON-rpc?