SOAP::Lite for Perl

Persisting SOAP Headers

Well behaved SOAP services must persist and proxy SOAP headers not addressed to them. Unfortunately, SOAP::Lite does not do this for you automatically, so you must do it yourself. You can find a a little write up on how here.

How to Persist SOAP Headers in SOAP::Lite

I discovered recently that SOAP::Lite isn't necessary well-behaved when it comes to conforming to SOAP intermediary requirements. According to the spec, SOAP services must ignore headers not addressed to them and must pass them along untouched in any response they deliver. Now most developers don't need to worry about this because this capability is only relevant to people invoking SOAP intermediaries. However, at Grand Central where I work, we use SOAP intermediaries all the time; in one scenario, we were calling a Web Service I built using Perl, but it did not persist SOAP Headers properly. So, I wrote some code to address the problem, and now it works as the SOAP spec requires.

SOAP::Lite and Salesforce Applications

I recently participated at Salesforce's dreamForce conference teaching developers about how to use SOAP::Lite to call Salesforce's new APIs. The code samples and modules I created for them can now be found at Sourceforce. The code samples were derived from the code generated by wsdl2perl, an ongoing development effort that aims to make WS programming even easier using Perl.

New Web Site Launched

After many months lying dormat, waiting to be released - the new SOAP::Lite website has been called to action. Believe it or not, this is momentous occassion for the project as the new site will make it easier for Perl developers to be more successful in their Web services projects. There are no promises on how frequent this site will be updated, but stay tuned to this URL for the latest in SOAP::Lite user and developer news!