Are you sure soap is what you want?. Just because SOAP uses XML to encode the parameters and data which it transmits doesnt necessarily mean you want that same format sent to the user. Why would you not have a normal mod perl content handler execute whatever procedures are necessary to get the information and then build the XML structures from the plethora of modules available?
I use mod_perl/apache/soap::lite to create an internal "application server" so that I can distribute processing load from the public webserver. This also allows me to expose a soap web service to the public if I wished to give them direct access to a method on this application server, but of course they would need a soap client to access this service. Do you want to just return an xml to your user, or do you want to do what I do which is do internal RPC using SOAP. Ric. p.s. apologies if I'm completely off track :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Frackiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: SOAP and web services Dear List, i want to create a server in mod_perl/apache, which receives request via get/post (plain), process this request (with database access and some functions) and answers in xml (with correct header), after planning this about a month i realized that this is called a "web service". the difference between my solution and all articles was SOAP, which i understand as an extension to http, so in my opinion i need something that allows to parse the request and creates the output, is there a solution for mod_perl anyway? and is this solution stable for a production server which more than 10.000 request/day? i hope this is the right place to ask, but in all articles i read there were only examples for java/tomcat, not for perl/mod_perl. Thanks in advance Bart Frackiewicz -- BART FRACKIEWICZ systementwickler inity - agentur fuer neue medien gmbh birkenstrasse 71 40233 duesseldorf
