Axis is language-independent (jargon: heterogeneous) but you need the appropriate Provider to call the back-end service. There's a lot of scope for people to write extra Providers for other languages (HINT).
And yes, perl is quite difficult to start. But do you remember the first time you used pointers in C ??
stephen
Mike Klein wrote:
Given that the point of soap is client/language-independence...it returns an extremely unfriendly return type. Not that intuitive how to pick out the pieces (at least in Perl via SOAP::Lite). Then again I find perl (as a beginner) a little difficult in general...too many ways to do the same thing!
Why wouldn't Document provider be default for language-independent services instead?
mike
