What Is SOAP::Lite

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∟Perl SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module

∟What Is SOAP::Lite

This section describes what is SOAP::Lite - A collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and lightweight interface to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) both on client and server side.

SOAP::Lite - A collection of Perl modules developed by Paul Kulchenko to server as both a SOAP client API package and a SOAP server API package. It offers:

SOAP::Lite - Client API.
SOAP::Transport::HTTP - Serve API for HTTP transportation, standalone and CGI.
SOAP::Transport::TCP - Serve API for TCP transportation.
Server API for other transportation protocols.
Utilities related to SOAP technology.

SOAP::Lite is included in the ActivePerl package. The main features of SOAP::Lite of ActivePerl 5.8.8 are:

Supports SOAP 1.1 specifications.
Provides transparent compression support for HTTP transport.
Includes XMLRPC::Lite, implementation of XML-RPC protocol on client and server side. All transports and features of SOAP::Lite are available.
Supports multipart/form-data MIME attachments.
Supports HTTPS protocol.
Provides proxy support.
Provides CGI/daemon/mod_perl/Apache::Registry server implementations.
Provides TCP server implementation.
Provides IO (STDIN/STDOUT/File) server implementation.
Provides FTP client implementation.
Supports SMTP protocol.
Provides POP3 server implementation.
Supports WSDL schema with stub and run-time access.
Supports dynamic and static class/method binding.
Provides shell for interactive SOAP sessions.