"ASHISH MUKHERJEE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone suggest sites which discuss practical
>application of SOAP/WSDL with Perl and with code snippets etc.? Or if anyone
has any examples etc. that you can forward it will be greatly appreciated.
>Also, any recommended books for learning SOAP and
>related technology?
http://xmlrpc.org/
has a lot of information on XML-RPC, which is the precurs[eo]r for SOAP
before the corporate world got ahold of it and made it an unreadable standard
(imho). It can do a lot of what SOAP can do, but is easier to debug.
http://www.soaplite.com/
the website for the Perl SOAP::Lite module. This module supports both SOAP
and XML-RPC.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP
this is the actual standards document. Take a big pot of coffee, a few XML
references, and spend the night trying to slog through it. It's fairly dense.
It says SOAP is lightweight, but if so, then XML-RPC has no weight at all.
Ok, so I'm biased a bit, but I like simple protocols :) Haven't read any
books on the subject, though I know they're out there.
The SOAP::Lite module (available on CPAN) has some examples.
Example applications from my job: mailstore administration and LDAP
modification (so we can keep a central LDIF audit trail when using a web farm
for the web interface). We're using the XML-RPC standard instead of SOAP
since it is sufficient for what we're doing.
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Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix
