in reply to modern ways of doing web services
REST + JSON is the current fashionable set of abbreviations.
I was put off SOAP::Lite for life when I found that it couldn't interoperate with some Microsofty SOAP thing and reliably send/receive an array of arrays across the network. We ended up embedding CSV in SOAP. Oh what fun that project was. No, I don't know at which end the bug was. I don't care either.
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