Threads is perfect for this. You could create 1 Soap::Lite object and keep using it over and over. This is untested, but is simple to understand what is happening. I would use Glib or AnyEvent to make a timer to wake the thread, but this while loop shows the simplicity. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

my $tgo:shared = 0;;
my $tdie:shared = 0;

my $thread = threads->new(\&check_it);

# setup a timer or use a while loop here
# probably need to Control-C out of this loop
# unless you add some keyboard checking for a q
# or whatever

while(1){
   sleep 10;
   $tgo = 1;
  print "starting check\n";
}

$tdie = 1;
$thread->join;
print "done press any key to exit\n";
<>;
###################################################

sub check_it {

  use SOAP::Lite;
  $|++; 

  # this will be persistent in the thread
  my $soap_client = SOAP::Lite->uri('myuri')
                    ->proxy('http://serviceendpoint',
                            timeout    => 30,
                            keep_alive => 1);

  while(1){

     if($tdie == 1){ return }; 
      
       if ( $tgo == 1 ){

        print "soap start\n";   
        $soap_client->call('SomeMethod',$paramter);
        print "soap done\n";

        $tgo = 0; #turn off self before returning to sleep     

       }else
         { sleep 1 }
  }

}
__END__

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In reply to Re: SOAP::Lite How to use persistent connection across fork process by zentara
in thread SOAP::Lite How to use persistent connection across fork process by Anonymous Monk

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