Sams Teach Yourself Web Services in 24 Hours

Chapter 19. Creating Web Services with Other Toolkits

In Hours 13–18, we examined some of the well-known Web services toolkits. Although they are the more popular toolkits from the larger vendors, it does not always mean that they are better. Because Web services are still a fairly young technology, there are still many smaller companies and groups offering competing solutions. In some cases, these offerings fill needs the larger companies have ignored. In this hour, we’ll examine the following toolkits:

• The Mind Electric GLUE

• PocketSOAP

• SOAP::Lite

For each toolkit, we’ll also demonstrate how to build a client using the toolkit, and in the case of GLUE and SOAP::Lite, how to build a service as well. Finally, we’ll discuss some of the advantages ...