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edocfu_9961552329902883
Format:
1 online resource (488 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-596-51641-X
Content:
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 usin
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents; Preface; Audience for This Book; Structure of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Randy; Pavel; Introduction to Web Services; History; The Web Services Dream; The Web Services Cold Shower; Who to Believe?; Web Services in the Real World; HTTP and XML Basics; HTTP; The Request/Response Cycle; HTTP Message Structure; Examining the request; Examining the response; Reading More About HTTP and LWP; XML; Self-Describing Data; Elements and namespaces; Attributes; Data; Comments, processing instructions, and specialized content
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Describing XML with DTD and XML SchemaThe DTD; XML Schema; XML Modules and Tools for Perl; XML::Parser; XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT; XML::SAX; XML::XPath, XML::Simple, and others; XML Schema; Why Replace the DTD?; Document structure versus data structure; Understanding more about XML Schema; Schema Components; The predefined simple types; Primary components; Attributes; Elements; Simple and complex types; A unified example schema; XML Schema in SOAP and Related Areas; Introduction to XML-RPC; History of XML-RPC; The XML in XML-RPC; Data encoding; Arrays and structures; Making a request
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Creating a responseSending an error response; Client and Server Communication; Method Signatures and Overloading; Example Client: Meerkat; The Meerkat Service; From Meerkat Query to HTML Sidebar; Limitations of XML-RPC; Status of the Specification; XML-RPC and Interoperability; Choosing XML-RPC over SOAP; Programming XML-RPC; Perl Toolkits for XML-RPC; RPC::XMLSimple; Client Example: meer2html.pl; The RPC::XMLSimple::Client Class in Detail; A Server Example: Providing "Fortunes"; The RPC::XMLSimple::Daemon Class in Detail; XMLRPC::Lite; Client Example: meer2html.pl
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The XMLRPC::Lite Class in DetailDebugging; Auto-Dispatch; The Fortune Server Using XMLRPC::Lite; The XMLRPC::Lite Server Classes; RPC::XML; Client Example: meer2html.pl; The RPC::XML::Client Class in Detail; The Fortune Server Using RPC::XML::Server; The RPC::XML::Server Class in Detail; Managing server-side code with XPL files; The Introspection Interface for Servers; Writing for Apache with Apache::RPC::Server; Configuring Server Objects; The Apache::RPC::Status Monitor; Introduction to SOAP; Background; XML Definitions; The Basic Message Structure; The Envelope Tag: Declaring Namespaces
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The Header Tag: Routing and MoreThe encodingStyle attribute; Actors, roles, nodes, and responsibility; The actor/role attributes; The mustUnderstand attribute; Attribute placement and example; The Body Tag: Anatomy of a Message; Expressing and Encoding Data; XML Schema and encoding; Simple types, values and enumerations; Compound types and values; Accessors, scoping, and reference; Arrays and partial arrays; Structures and generic compound types; The SOAP root attribute; Signaling a Problem: Faults; Fault elements; Predefined faults; RPC over SOAP; Supplying the RPC Information
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Putting the Call and Response in the Body
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Available also in a print edition.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-596-00206-8
Language:
English
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