Web services became today's buzzword ...

And everybody is tlaking about web services now, as they talked about XML last year ... And the worst of this is that even I do like the concept of web services and I'm begining to expiriment with it little bit.

As a first step I want to implement bug submiting mini-application for our development team. We have task tracking system deployed as our internal application. We have also a web server on a demilitarized zone network.
Now I want to implement a simple web application on the external web server that will enable external users to log in, fill in bug report and submit it. I want this bug report to apear as a task in our internal task tracking system.

And now to the point. I want to implement web service on the internal task tracking system to receive reports from the external mini-application. SOAP came to my mind immediatly and I've looked at SOAP and SOAP::Lite modules. It looks very simple to use for standalone application, but it looks little bit complicated to integrate with existing (quite large) Apache/mod_perl application.

Are there any alternatives to SOAP for building web services in Perl? Does somebody have some experience using SOAP or any other mean of 'web-rpc' ? I will appreciate any help or sugestion.

In reply to Web services technology by gildir

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