Example 2: Typical skeleton code use Win32; use Win32::Daemon; $SERVICE_SLEEP_TIME = 20; # 20 milliseconds $PrevState = SERVICE_START_PENDING; while( SERVICE_STOPPED != ( $State = Win32::Daemon::State() ) ) { if( SERVICE_START_PENDING == $State ) { # Initialization code Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING ); $PrevState = SERVICE_RUNNING; } elseif( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING == $State ) { Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOPPED ); } elsif( SERVICE_PAUSE_PENDING == $State ) { # "Pausing..."; Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_PAUSED ); $PrevState = SERVICE_PAUSED; next; } elsif( SERVICE_CONTINUE_PENDING == $State ) { # "Resuming..."; Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING ); $PrevState = SERVICE_RUNNING; next; } elsif( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING == $State ) { # "Stopping..."; Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOPPED ); $PrevState = SERVICE_STOPPED; next; } elsif( SERVICE_RUNNING == $State ) { # The service is running as normal... # ...add the main code here... } else { # Got an unhandled control message. Set the state to # whatever the previous state was. Win32::Daemon::State( $PrevState ); } # Check for any outstanding commands. Pass in a non zero value # and it resets the Last Message to SERVICE_CONTROL_NONE. if( SERVICE_CONTROL_NONE != ( my $Message = Win32::Daemon::QueryLastMessage( 1 ) ) ) { if( SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE == $Message ) { # Got here if the Service Control Manager is requesting # the current state of the service. This can happen for # a variety of reasons. Report the last state we set. Win32::Daemon::State( $PrevState ); } elsif( SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN == $Message ) { # Yikes! The system is shutting down. We had better clean up # and stop. # Tell the SCM that we are preparing to shutdown and that we expect # it to take 25 seconds (so don't terminate us for at least 25 seconds)... Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING, 25000 ); } } # Snooze for awhile so we don't suck up cpu time... Win32::Sleep( $SERVICE_SLEEP_TIME ); } # We are done so close down... Win32::Daemon::StopService(); #### use SOAP::Transport::HTTP; my $daemon = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon -> new (LocalAddr => 'localhost', LocalPort => 82, Listen => 5, Reuse => 1) -> dispatch_to('C:\\WINDOWS') ; print "Contact to SOAP server at ", join(':', $daemon->sockhost, $daemon->sockport), "\n"; $daemon->handle;