Programming Web Services with Perl

Programming Web Services with Perl is written for Perl programmers who have no prior knowledge of web services. No understanding of XML-RPC or SOAP is necessary to be able to apply these technologies easily, through the use of publicly available Perl modules detailed in the book. If you're interested in applying XML-RPC and SOAP technologies to distributed programming applications, then Programming Web Services with Perl is a book you'll want to have.

has over 10 years of experience in design and development of complex financial and banking applications, and information management in the financial services sector. Pavel is the author and maintainer of the popular SOAP::Lite module for SOAP clients and servers in Perl, the XMLRPC::Lite module that implements XML-RPC protocol, and the UDDI::Lite module, a client interface for UDDI repositories.

Preface

ix

Introduction to Web Services

1

(8)

History

2

(1)

The Web Services Dream

3

(1)

The Web Services Cold Shower

4

(1)

Who to Believe?

5

(1)

Web Services in the Real World

6

(3)

HTTP and XML Basics

9

(23)

HTTP

9

(4)

XML

13

(9)

XML Schema

22

(10)

Introduction to XML-RPC

32

(20)

History of XML-RPC

32

(10)

Example Client: Meerkat

42

(7)

Limitations of XML-RPC

49

(3)

Programming XML-RPC

52

(31)

Perl Toolkits for XML-RPC

52

(1)

RPC::XMLSimple

53

(6)

XMLRPC::Lite

59

(8)

RPC::XML

67

(16)

Introduction to SOAP

83

(31)

Background

83

(1)

XML Definitions

84

(24)

RPC over SOAP

108

(3)

SOAP Transport

111

(2)

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