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From: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:27:36 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Looking for SOAP resources
To: Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Boston Perl Mongers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Drew Taylor writes:
> I'm beginning a project which will involve SOAP. From a look at
> CPAN, there are the SOAP and SOAP::Lite modules which appear to be
> very useful. Which one should I use? I'm mostly interested in active
> development and feature set. And of course ease of use is right up
> there at the top of my list as well.
I hear all and I see all.
Try SOAP::Lite. It's very cool, and the author (Paul Kulchenko) is
really interested in making it kick major ass. He's always adding new
stuff and sexing it up. He and worked together to write a SOAP::Lite
Quick Start Guide. It was originally for TPJ, but given the length
of its limbo, we moved it to perl.com.
I don't know when it's going to be published (Tuesday) but if you ask
him <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> he can tell you.
> Also, I'm trying to learn more about SOAP itself. I'm currently
> looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ and
> http://www.develop.com/soap/ for some background information. Are
> there any books or other sites with good tutorials for using SOAP?
> I'm also going to be joining the SOAP list at develop.com.
Good question. There's not actually *that* much to SOAP itself. I
mean, if you're going to implement client or server SOAP libraries
then you need to know about XML namespaces and schema and all that
crap. But if you're just going to write a program that uses an
existing SOAP library, you basically treat it like a method dispatch
mechanism.
I suppose you do need to know a bit about the underlying system in
order to understand why some types of errors are die()d and others you
have to call a method to discover, to understand what proxy() is for,
and so on. All these things are puzzling until you see their role in
the underlying XML-over-HTTP conversation.
> If anyone is actively using SOAP with perl, I'd love to talk to you.
I've written a few toy programs. Shoot.
Nat
