[Zope] xmlrpc and zope- newbie Q

[kedai]

hi,
i spent quite some time going thru userland.com, zope's archive reading stuff about xmlrpc.  i see the potential, but can't really grasp how we can achieve that with zope.  the announcement
http://www.zope.org:12080/archives/Catalog/archives/1999-June/005831.html
provide a little example, but really, i don't get it.  can any guru help explain what and how we can use xmlrpc with zope?

can we use zope as the server?  if so, how?  and i assume zope can be the client updating other servers to, right?  i'm really stuck here.  

me-in-a-bind

thanks