in reply to SOAP in an NT Service
I had to do something similar once. I experimented with fork but it wasn't too stable. In the end, I used Win32::Process in the NT Service to create the child process (in this case the SOAP server.) Then the service was essentially just the Loop, and if a STOP command was issued, the service killed the child process. You'll probably want to give the SOAP server some kind of signal to shut down safely. Think also about preventing the child process from lingering after the service has stopped.
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