The same code worked fine for me both at home and at the office against my emulation of the WebLogic behavior.

I moved the code to perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi , and it works against the real WebLogic behavior.

I did eventually get the SOAP::Lite interface going as well, so the backend gets exercised that way and I now have a third option for putting the front end through its paces. (With the brick wall I hit on Mechanize/Cygwin, I implemented tests in Rational Robot and LoadRunner VU Generator.)

In case it saves anybody some time, when causing SOAP::Lite to create XML queries that could be parsed by WebLogic's implementation of SAX (JAX?) I found it helpful to expressly set 'xmlns:xsi' => "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" as a SOAP::Data attribute while building the query.

(I apologize for the buzzword overuse, I'm hoping to provide SuperSearch as many opportunities as possible to locate this potential nugget.)

--pilgrim