Programming Web Services with Perl

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Given Perl's natural fit for web applications development, it's no surprise that Perl is also a natural choice for web services development. It's the most popular web programming language, with strong implementations of both SOAP and XML-RPC, the leading ways to distribute applications using web services. But books on web services focus on writing these applications in Java or Visual Basic, leaving Perl programmers with few resources to get them started. Programming Web Services with Perl changes that, bringing Perl users all the information they need to create web services using their favorite language.

  Programming Web Services with Perl steers clear of the hype surrounding web services and concentrates on what is useful and practical. The book introduces the major web services standards, such as XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, and shows how to implement Perl servers and clients using these standards. You'll find detailed references on both the XML and SOAP toolkits, and learn when to use one technology in favor of the other. The book is rich with programming examples that you'll find useful well past the learning stage. And, moving beyond the basics, the book offers solutions to problems of security, authentication, and scalability.

  Some of the topics covered in the book are:

          HTTP and XML basics

  XML-RPC and the toolkits

  SOAP and toolkits

  SOAP::Lite

  Using SOAP with SMTP and other protocols

  Advertising and discovering with UDDI and WSDL

  The REST methodology

  The future of web services

      Programming Web Services with Perl was written for Perl programmers who have no prior knowledge of web services. You can pick up this book without any understanding of XML-RPC or SOAP and 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Introduction to Web Services

          History

          The Web Services Dream

          The Web Services Cold Shower

          Who to Believe?

          Web Services in the Real World

  2. HTTP and XML Basics

          HTTP

          XML

          XML Schema

  3. Introduction to XML-RPC

          History of XML-RPC

          Example Client: Meerkat

          Limitations of XML-RPC

  4. Programming XML-RPC

          Perl Toolkits for XML-RPC

          RPC::XMLSimple

          XMLRPC::Lite

          RPC::XML

  5. Introduction to SOAP

          Background

          XML Definitions

          RPC over SOAP

          SOAP Transport

          Further Reading

  6. Programming SOAP

          A Toolkit Approach

          DevelopMentor's SOAP Module

          The SOAP::Lite Module

          Other SOAP-Related Modules

  7. Serving SOAP over HTTP

          Basic SOAP::Lite Servers

          The Application

          Designing the Server

          Tying the Interface Code to SOAP

          Improving the Code and the Service

          Ideas for Further Exploration

  8. SOAP Services Without HTTP

          Choosing a Protocol

          Authentication

          Transports with Server and Client

          Standalone Protocols

          Creating New Transport Modules

  9. Service Description with WSDL

          Basic WSDL

          WSDL Programming

  10. Service Advertising and Discovery with UDDI

          Defining UDDI

          Programming with UDDI::Lite

  11. REST: Representational State Transfer

          Defining REST

          REST Principles

          Programming REST

  12. Advanced Web Services Topics

          Message Routing

          Packaging

          Security

          Services Discovery

          Reliable Messaging

          Business Process Management

          Implementation Considerations

          WS-Next

  A. XML-RPC Toolkit Programming Reference

  B. SOAP::Lite Programming Reference

  C. XML-RPC Example Code

  D. SOAP Example Code

  E. WSDL and UDDI Examples

  F. Bibliography and References

  Index

  Related O'Reilly Titles:

Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities

Programming Perl, 3rd Edition

Programming Web Services with SOAP

Programming Web Services with XML-RPC

XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition