Doing XML-RPC on J2ME devices

Question

I'm interested in doing some very simple XML-RPC (http://www.xmlrpc.com/) on a MIDP1.0 type of device.
I discovered the useful but now apparently defunct kxmlrpc (http://kxmlrpc.objectweb.org/project/aboutProject/index.html). After spending two days chasing, and finally "fixing", an obscure, missing invocation of parser.skip() in XmlRPCParser.parseValue(), I concluded there has to be a better way to do XML-RPC on J2ME.
I discovered JSR 172, but it looks like the API encourages SOAP programming, which doesn't meet my XML-RPC requirement. I could find no examples illustrating how to to XML-RPC with JSR 172 interfaces, although this doesn't prove one can't.
How are people doing XML-RPC on J2ME these days? I'm baffled.
Thanks.

Answer 1

For those who may be interested, here are the mods I made to the kxmlrpc XML-RPC parser:
1. In XmlRpcParser.java, add a parser.skip() before the parser.read() in parseValue()
parser.skip();
parser.read( Xml.START_TAG, "", "value" );
2. In XmlRpcWriter.java, add a writeLegacy() before the methodCall start tag is written in writeCall()
writer.writeLegacy(Xml.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION,"xml version=\"1.0\"");
writer.startTag( "methodCall" );
Both of these changes probably a result of the difference in the XML-RPC server I used vs. what the author of kxmlrpc used. My XML-RPC server refused to accept the call without the XML processor instruction <?xml version="1.0"?>. And the parser was thowing 'unexpected' exceptions before the whtespace was stripped off the front end of <value> tags coming back in the response.
In all, kxmlrpc seems to work fine for the basic data structures I'm dealing with (Strings, simple structs). I just wish there was a standard J2ME way of doing this sort of web service.
http://kxmlrpc.objectweb.org/project/aboutProject/index.html