XML-RPC. SOAP. CORBA. Buzzwords galore, but possibly useful ones: this is, essentially, technology that allows you to use web sites as a big API. Joe Johnston visits us this week with a great article at use Perl called Creating Web Services with XML-RPC; you might also want to check out an article by Paul Kulchenko on www.perl.com, "Quick Start with SOAP".

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