SOAP-Based Web Services

In this chapter, you learned about SOAP web services through Perl. Specifically, you were introduced to SOAP itself with a brief introduction to the protocol. Next, you met SOAP::Lite and saw how to consume SOAP web services. You also saw how to create a SOAP listener with Perl. Finally, you looked at a real-world example of a SOAP service by calling the National Weather Service’s SOAP forecast service.