One of the most popular SOAP libraries, the Perl SOAP::Lite module, has added many new features, including transports for Jabber and XML-RPC.

The latest release, 0.51, boasts these new features:

• Jabber transport
• MQ transport
• XML-RPC transport
• FastCGI transport
• TCP/SSL transport, added non-blocking TCP multiserver
• Support for WSDL import directive, short (tModel) service descriptions
• Support for non-SOAP bindings in WSDL
• Through use of Inline::C module allow dispatch to other languages including C, C++, assembler, Java, Python and Tcl.

SOAP::Lite can be obtained from the project's home page, or from CPAN.