Web Services
As part of ASP.NET support, PerlASPX provides developers with additional facility besides creating ASP.NET Web pages: creating Web services. Web services are much like the PerlNET components that we created throughout this book. You declare the class with methods that may then be invoked by the Web service clients. The major difference is that Web services run on the Web server and the methods are called remotely through the network. Hence, the infrastructure for Web services differs from one for regular PerlNET components.
By exposing Web services to the developers, the Web sites become “smarter.” Suppose you want to perform some orders through the Internet on a regular basis. You will either do it manually each time or you may ...
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