Date: Feb. 19, 2001
Link: http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/05/1438258
Source Author or Organization: Joe Johnston, Use Perl

In this tutorial, the author demonstrates combining Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC) and Perl to create a basic platform-independent web service.

The service is a simple XML-RPC listener, which a system administrator can place on each network machine to monitor its health remotely. The Perl source is listed, and an Active Server Pages (ASP) page is shown that makes XML-RPC calls to the client machines as one example of a monitoring display system.

Working through the tutorial requires the Frontier::RPC Perl module by Ken MacLeod (which is not Frontier-specific).