Im using Soap::Lite as follows:

Server:

  use SOAP::Lite;
  use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

  $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';

  $daemon = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon
    -> new (LocalPort => 8001, LocalAddr => 'localhost', listen => 5)
    -> dispatch_to(qw(demo));

  print "Contact to SOAP server at ", $daemon->url, "\n";
  $daemon->handle;
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demo.pm

package demo;

    sub new
    {
        print "called NEW\n";
        my $pkg = shift;
        my $self = {};
        bless($self, $pkg);
        return $self;
    }


    sub DESTROY
    {
        print "DESTROY - called\n";
    }
 sub getVal
  {
    my $self = shift;
    print "val = $self->{VAR}\n";
  }


  sub setVal
  {
    my $self = shift;
     print "set val\n";
    $self->{VAR} = shift;
  }
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Client:

  use SOAP::Lite +autodispatch =>
    uri => 'http://localhost/demo',
    proxy => 'http://localhost:8001/';

my $obj = demo->new();
$obj->getVal();
$obj->setVal(44);
$obj->getVal();
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What I see:

called NEW
DESTROY - called
val =
DESTROY - called
set val
DESTROY - called
val = 44
DESTROY - called
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Clearly my object isn't being destroyed or GC'd. If I run the client a second time (without restarting the server) it creates a new (empty) $self with VAR undefined.

Clearly I am misunderstanding OO Perl. Whats my disconnect?