[ale] need help with SOAP server

[Michael Hirsch]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:10:44 +0000, Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:
> I just got informed today that I need to set up a SOAP server by Tuesday.  Can
> anyone point me toward some good books, tutorials, or even just pass along
> some information?  I just took a quick crash course on what SOAP is, but I
> have no idea what's involved in setting up a SOAP server.  There appears to
> be an Apache project called Axis that is a SOAP server...anyone know anything
> about this?
> 
> Alternatively, is there a PHP solution?  I read that Pear can make SOAP server
> instances, but again, I know nothing about this.  I need a quick-fix solution
> right now to at least get SOAP up and running on a server by Tuesday, so any
> help or guidance would be appreciated.  I have free reign to buy any books I
> need off amazon, etc, so feel free to suggest a book that's exceptionally
> good if you know of one.

Are you  sure that the person who told you to do this knows what
s/he's talking about?  SOAP is essentially a
protocol/encoding/convention for interfacing with an application
server over a network protocol like http.  So to put up a SOAP server
without knowing what application server you are using doesn't make
sense.  What to they want to use for the back end?  Java?  Perl?  PHP?
 Python?  C#?  I bet you can find multiple solutions for each of those
languages.

Usually SOAP is done over HTTP, and apache with tomcat is a common
implementation.  I'm pretty sure that there are mod-perl SOAP
libraries, so all you would need is Apache, in that case.

Michael