Perl Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.32, by Dr. Herong Yang
What Is SOAP?
This section describes what is SOAP (Simple Object Accessing Protocol) - A client-server communication protocol to access remote objects.
SOAP (Simple Object Accessing Protocol) - A client-server communication protocol to allow the client side to accessing programming objects on the server side, and execute methods against those objects, and receiving execution result. All these functionalities are archived by sending and receiving XML messages over various transportation protocols, like TCP, HTTP, FTP, etc.
There are two options for an application program, client side or server side, to use SOAP:
1. Follow the SOAP protocol, and do everything yourself. Here is the communication diagram:
| SOAP on TCP | Client Prog.|<-------------->|Server Prog.
Here is the steps involved to complet a single SOAP communication:
Step Client Program Server Program 1 Prepare server socket 2 Listen on server socket 3 Wait 4 Prepare SOAP request Wait 5 Prepare client socket Wait 6 Connect to server Connect with client 7 Transmit SOAP request Receive SOAP request 8 Wait Process SOAP request 9 Wait Prepare SOAP response 10 Receive SOAP response Transmit SOAP response 11 Close client socket Wait
2. Use SOAP client API (Application Program Interface) package to help your client program to:
3. Use SOAP server API (Application Program Interface) package to help your server program to:
Here is the communication diagram, if you are using SOAP API packages:
Client System Server System API | TCP/HTTP/... | Client Prog.<--->SOAP Client|<-------------->|TCP/HTTP/... Server ^ | Attached v SOAP Server ^ | API v Server Prog.
To learn more about SOAP, see my other book: "Herong's Notes on SOAP".
Table of Contents
Data Types: Values and Variables
Expressions, Operations and Simple Statements
Name Spaces and Perl Module Files
Hard References - Addresses of Memory Objects
Objects (or References) and Classes (or Packages)
Typeglob and Importing Identifiers from Other Packages
String Built-in Functions and Performance
File Handles and Data Input/Output
Open Directories and Read File Names
File System Functions and Operations
Converting Perl Script to Executable Binary
Socket Communication Over the Internet
XML::Simple Module - XML Parser and Generator
►SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module
SOAP::Transport::TCP - SOAP Server with TCP Protocol
SoapTcpClient.pl - SOAP Client Example with TCP Protocol
SOAP::Transport::HTTP - SOAP Server with HTTP Protocol
Perl Programs as IIS Server CGI Scripts
CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
XML-RPC - Remote Procedure Call with XML and HTTP
RPC::XML - Perl Implementation of XML-RPC
Integrating Perl with Apache Web Server
CGI.pm Module for Building Web Pages