SOAP::Lite
You can try an implementation of SOAP with Perl called SOAP::Lite, written by Paul Kulchenko. SOAP::Lite is a collection of Perl modules that provide a simple and lightweight interface for both the client and server side. This version of SOAP::Lite supports the SOAP 1.1 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP) and works with many SOAP implementions, including Apache SOAP, Frontier, Microsoft SOAP, Microsoft .NET, DevelopMentor, XMethods, 4s4c, Phalanx, Kafka, SQLData, Lucin (in Java), Perl, C++, Python, VB, COM, and XSLT.
Here’s an example that uses SOAP::Lite. The following code
creates a SOAP::Lite object and uses it, but what’s special about the
SOAP::Lite object is that it’s based on code that lives on www.soaplite.com
. In other words, the
code that lives on the remote end of the connection might not be Perl
at all—but by using SOAP::Lite, you can execute the f2c( )
function as if you were calling
f2c( )
from your own Perl
program.
Also note the uri
and proxy
options. The uri
option is the URI for
SOAP methods. Basically, uri
tells SOAP::Lite where
SOAP-related content lives. In Perl terms, uri
can
represent the class in which you’ll find the function to execute. For
example, let’s say you have the following SOAP server that uses HTTP
as its transport mechanism:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use SOAP::Transport::HTTP; SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI -> dispatch_to('Hello::(?:hello)') -> handle ;
This example has two key parts: it will look for a module named “Hello” and will ...
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