Given Perl's natural fit for web applications development, it's no surprise that Perl is emerging as a force in the field of web services. Programming Web Services with Perl describes Perl's robust implementations of web-services standards, bringing Perl users all the information they need to quickly create web services for enterprise or Internet-wide deployment. Like other O'Reilly Perl books, Programming Web Services with Perl concentrates on what is useful and practical. The book introduces the topics central to web services, such as XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and REST, and shows how to implement Perl servers and clients using available standards. You'll find detailed references on both the XML-RPC and SOAP toolkits and learn when to use one technology in favor of the other. The book is rich with programming examples that you'll find useful well past the learning stage. Programming Web Services with Perl was written for Perl programmers who have no prior knowledge of web services. You can pick up this book without any understanding of XML-RPC or SOAP and be able to apply these technologies easily, through the use of publicly available Perl modules detailed in the book.