Using SOAP with Tomcat

sanglin writes: "On O'Reilly's ONJava.com site, there's a new "Using SOAP with Tomcat" column from James Goodwill. It shows you how to create and deploy SOAP services with Apache's RPC model onto the Tomcat container."

That's neat -- but I'll stick with SOAP::Lite

[rjamestaylor]

I am amazed at how powerful perl w/ CPAN is and have yet to find the "killer app" requiring me to leave perl and get into Java servers or .NET stuff. I deploy a SOAP server with SOAP::Lite that is used for real-time prescription dispensing. The other end is Java on Windows. Yes, I ran into the "base64" encoding assumption but once pointed in the right direction we were golden.

A friend who is an expert with Blue Martini (a very expensive Java-based application server) said that perl with CPAN was more impressive.

But, as long as Microsoft and Sun have the advertising avenues to reach the PHBs, Perl will be the despised step-child of Web application development. But despised stepchildren tend to have, er, Cinderella stories.