Hi all,

I setup some time ago a SOAP service, using SOAP::Lite and in particular SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon. It works fine.

However now I am finding that some queries are taking quite long (waiting on SQL) and the Daemon process thus created will only service one request at a time.

The official solution would seem to be to install Apache or possibly some other web server and run it via CGI/mod_perl/mod_soap.

I don't like the idea of installing a web server to solve a problem that might be solved with perl itself :-)

I've used Net::Server with a lot of success in the past, it's a very fast and efficient forking server framework.

However it's becoming clear to me that tying together SOAP::Lite and Net::Server might be a lot of work. Maybe so much that Laziness will dictate I install a web server after all. This would make me sad :-(

Has anyone either done this, or used some other technique to enable multiple simultaneous users of a SOAP::Lite service? In perl :-)

I noticed (while making my cpan:// links work :-) that there is a 'ForkOnAccept' module in the examples directory of the module, but I gave it a quick try and couldn't get it to work.

In reply to Implementing a forking SOAP::Lite server by Tardis

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