Interesting Web Services for use in Article Demos

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Hey All,

I'm currently writing a new demo application and want to include interaction with an interesting web service, anyone have any good ones that are likely to hang around and be available for a decent amount of time into the future?

Cheers,

Posted 30-Nov-11 7:57am

Jammer

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Nov-11 14:01pm

I appreciate this question. This is a good idea to demonstrate techniques on some well-known Web Services (I voted 5), especially "interesting" ones, but I used to face the same problem, and did not find anything good at that time. Hope you well find it -- looking forward to see your article.

Good luck,
--SA

Jammer 30-Nov-11 14:28pm

Thanks! The most interesting one I've ever found and used is this one:

MusicBrains

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Nov-11 14:05pm

Do you require to get an WSDL file from the service provider?
--SA

Jammer 30-Nov-11 14:31pm

Yeah, this is where the idea breaks down a little bit as if you want to do a good WCF demo it would be good to have access to the original library so you don't end up using proxy classes.

Still, a demo of both is equally good.

That said it definitely wouldn't be a problem, better than no WSDL!!!! :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Nov-11 21:00pm

Certainly. I've done some search and found HTTP based services which are called "Web Service" but in fact simply accept requests in the URL and return some XML/JSON (and even PHP persistence format, oh, boy!) document in response. :-) That's not it, I think. A "real" Web Service is the Web Service.
--SA

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