Installing wsf/perl in Ubuntu

Today I got to install wso2 wsf/perl in my Ubuntu 8.04 OS. It was really straight forward.  Just follow the following steps and you are ready to do real web services in perl.

1. Download wsf/perl 1.1 from cpan web site. http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHINTANA/WSO2-WSF-Perl-1.1.tar.gz
2. Download wsf/c 1.3.0 from the oxygen tank. http://dist.wso2.org/products/wsf/c/1.3.0/wso2-wsf-c-src-1.3.0.tar.gz
3. First extract the wsf/c packtar xvzf wso2-wsf-c-src-1.3.0.tar.gz
4. Compile and install the wsf/c to a preferred directory (say /tmp/wsfc)../configure –prefix=’/tmp/wsfc’makemake install (you may need super user privileges depending on where you select to install the package)
5. Install the following packages from apt respositories.perl, libperl-dev, liberror-perlYou can use the following command to install themsudo apt-get install perlsudo apt-get install libperl-dev

   sudo apt-get install liberror-perl

6. Now extract the WSO2-WSF-Perl-1.1.tar.gztar xvzf WSO2-WSF-Perl-1.1.tar.gz
7. Set the WSFC_HOME environment variable to where you install wsf/c. (in our example it is /tmp/wsfc)export WSFC_HOME=/tmp/wsfc (Remember you have to do this every time you open a new shell, or else put this line in the ~/.bashrc file)
8. Inside the WSO2-WSF-Perl-1.1 directory runperl Makefile.PLNote: This may sometime complains about missiling libraries (actually for -laxis2_minizip, -laxis2_libxml2, -lhtpwcb). Anyway this will not be a problem for your installation.
9. Now the last step of your installation.makesudo make install (Here you need to have super user priviledges)
10. Just go to the samples directory and run the echo_client.pl (You need to have a wsf/php server running to response these wsf/perl calls). Make sure it gives the expexted output.

Currently WSF/Perl have only the web services client libraries. But it is rich with features like WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, MTOM and many more.