Simplified SOAP Development with SOAP::Lite - Part I

As of September 2001, there are around seventy (70) toolkits available from various sources including Microsoft, Apache, Cape Clear, and so on, to aid develop SOAP client and/or server applications. The question is which one should you use? The answer is – it depends! If you are used to Microsoft technologies, you may go with Microsoft SOAP Toolkit or .NET Framework SDK, depending on which platform you are developing on; however if you like the "tim-toady" way of programming, the best bet for you would be to use SOAP::Lite for Perl, developed by Paul Kulchenko.

In this article series, we'll take a detailed look at SOAP::Lite, a wonderful SOAP Toolkit, and understand how it simplifies the SOAP development process. This first installment introduces Perl and discusses how to write SOAP clients using the SOAP::Lite toolkit.