Quick Start Guide with SOAP and SOAP::LiteSOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for you to remotely make method calls upon classes and objects that exist on a remote server. It's the latest in a long series of similar projects like CORBA, DCOM, and XML-RPC. SOAP specifies a standard way to encode parameters and return values in XML, and standard ways to pass them over some common network protocols like HTTP (web) and SMTP
