Perl Client Toolkit: Introduction

• Net::Z3950 is a Perl module for building clients.

  The URL for Net::Z3950 is http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/nz/index.html

• Net::Z3950::SimpleServer is for building servers.

  I'm not going to talk about it :-)

• This session is broadly based on the tutorial for that module.

  The tutorial can be found at http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/nz/doc/Z3950/Tutorial.html

• I'm using Perl because it's widely known and simple.

  But these principals apply equally to other languages.

  The abstract version of the API is embodied in ZOOM, which can be found at http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/zoom.html