-------- Original Message -------- Subject: www.perl.com: Quick Start with Soap Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 06:25:06 -0800 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:31:50 -0800 From: "www.perl.com update" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ============================================================ Sponsored by Allaire Build and Deploy Scalable Java Applications with Allaire JRun 3.0! Built from the ground up to meet J2EE specifications, JRun 3.0 offers the most productive way to build and deploy scalable Java applications. Plus, JRun?s modular architecture, lets you choose only the J2EE components you need! Download your FREE, non-expiring version, today at http://ads.allaire.com/allaire/perl5.html ============================================================ Greetings, perl.com subscribers. This is Schuyler Erle, web hacker for the O'Reilly Network, and it is my honor and pleasure to bring you the latest www.perl.com newsletter. So, without further ado, here's what's new in the world of Perl. * Perl at large. For a while this week, it was starting to look like the biggest news in Perl was that there wasn't any news. Still no word on the status of the Perl Journal, hardly a peep about Perl 6, and the latest on Perl 5.6.1 for a while had been that we weren't going to see it any time soon. However, a whole bunch of exciting things have cropped up, just in the last couple of days. First, Chris Nandor has recently taken charge of maintaining MacPerl, and has already produced the first development release of MacPerl 5.6.0. You can get the latest word on MacPerl at: http://macperl.sourceforge.net Next, just when we started to fear that maybe 5.6.1 might languish forever in beta, Gurusamy Sarathy has just this Wednesday morning announced to the perl5-porters list that "Thanks largely to Jarkko's help, the second trial version of perl v5.6.1 is now available.... If this release passes muster, I will update perldelta.pod and send it to CPAN as v5.6.1." Go, Sarathy! By the time you get this message, the trial release has probably already reached your local CPAN mirror. Try it out, and send in those doc patches and bug reports! Also, Damian Conway has announced some of the first fruits of his indentured servitude to the Perl community. One such product is the brand-new Regexp::Common, a module that "stores or generates commonly needed regular expressions," including: Balanced parens; delimited text (with escapes!); numbers in any base up to 36; comments in C, C++, and, of course, Perl; and more. Conway also has plans to extend Regexp::Common to include E-mail addresses, mail headers, telephone numbers, and that's just the beginning. More information on Damian Conway, and his community-subsidized doings, can be found on the Conway Channel at: http://yetanother.org/damian/ Finally, Elaine Ashton is seeking ideas and contributions for the CPAN documentation section. She writes on use.perl.org that "Since the /doc directory on CPAN is about as fresh as 5.004 is, we are currently thinking of things to bring this up to date and add more things the community might find value in." Find out more at: http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/25/1258229 If you can help, and perhaps thereby render a service to the whole Perl community, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] * What's new on perl.com? This week, Paul Kulchenko shows us how to take the pain out of Remote Procedure Calling, using with SOAP::Lite module. SOAP::Lite provides a simple but flexible interface to SOAP, an XML-based RPC protocol. Building on SOAP::Lite, Paul shows us how easy it can be to access objects and execute procedures remotely using Perl. http://www.perl.com/fill-in-the-url-here-please Also, once again, the inimitable Simon Cozens brings us up to date on the latest progress in the march toward Perl 5.6.1, with his weekly perl5-porters digest. If you don't know much about the insides of the Perl interpreter or where they're headed, Simon's p5p digest is a great way to start getting your feet wet. http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20010128.html * A Fond Farewell. Speaking for everyone at www.perl.com and the O'Reilly Network, I'd like to wish a fond goodbye to Mark-Jason Dominus, who is departing after over a year as www.perl.com's Managing Editor. Mark-Jason has, in my opinion, done a wonderful job bringing www.perl.com into the twenty-first century, and the site won't be quite the same without his technical insight and caustic wit. We sincerely wish Mark-Jason all the best, and we eagerly anticipate bringing you his first feature article as Editor Emeritus. Good luck, Dominus! Meanwhile, if you have any questions, comments, or other issues of an editorial nature, you can contact our very own Chris Coleman, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Until next week, fair Perl hackers! We now return you to your regularly scheduled E-mail. SDE ============================================================ Sponsored by NuSphere Serious about using open source software to do server-side web development? NuSphere? MySQL? integrates the leading open source database, MySQL, with Perl, a pre-configured Perl DBI, PHP and Apache. Binary and source for RedHat Linux, Solaris and Windows on one CD. Buy the box for $79 and get the MySQL Reference. Or download for free, http://www.nusphere.com/op. ============================================================ Quick Start with SOAP http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/soap.html?wwwrrr_20010131.txt An introduction to SOAP::Lite, a module that provides simple yet flexible interface to SOAP, a popular XML-RPC protocol. Using SOAP::Lite, Perl scripts can access objects and execute procedures on remote servers, and also serve SOAP objects and procedures over the 'Net. Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/tt2.html?wwwrrr_20010131.txt Dave Cross explains why you should add the Template Toolkit to your installation of Perl and why it is useful for more than just dynamic web pages. A Beginner's Introduction to POE http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html?wwwrrr_20010131.txt Interested in event-driven Perl? Dennis Taylor and Jeff Goff show us how to write a simple server daemon using POE, the Perl Object Environment. 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