Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by sh1mmer » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 3:10 AM UTC

I'm doing some research for a book and I'm looking for the best publicly available SOAP web services.

I know Google and Ebay/Paypal have some. Do people have some example they think really highlight the best of the SOAP architecture?

Thanks :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by jmtame » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 3:43 AM UTC

I second that

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by zacharydanger » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 4:30 AM UTC

I know Chase's Paymentech payment gateway has a SOAP interface. Good? Maybe. SOAP? Yep.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by wheels » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 5:23 AM UTC

MS Live Search has a SOAP API as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by timcederman » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 7:28 AM UTC

Google does not currently have a publicly available SOAP web service, unless you already have a key.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by xchecker » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 7:56 AM UTC

Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web.

When I've developed APIs, people clamor for JSON, REST, and serialized PHP. Maybe I'm in some non-Microsoft, non-Java ghetto?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by wheels » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 8:27 AM UTC

xchecker wrote: post #6

Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web. When I've developed APIs, people clamor for JSON, REST, and serialized PHP. Maybe I'm in some non-Microsoft, non-Java ghetto?

It's used by a lot of enterprise software -- like the kind that will still be running more or less unchanged a decade from now.

I find it a pain in the ass to write SOAP interfaces, but I don't mind at all working with them. Running a compiler on the WSDL file for my programming language of choice is often a lot faster to get up and running than wrapping a REST API and WADL seems not to have really taken off.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by dizz » Sun, Nov 30, 2008, 12:02 PM UTC

Amazon EC2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2.wsdl S3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdl

And I'm sure there's others... in fact here's a dude that's listed all the amazon services exposed as wsdl http://www.ecocoma.com/amazon_wsdl.aspx

Re: Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services

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Post by sh1mmer » Mon, Dec 01, 2008, 4:22 PM UTC

xchecker wrote: post #6

Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web. When I've developed APIs, people clamor for JSON, REST, and serialized PHP. Maybe I'm in some non-Microsoft, non-Java ghetto?

I didn't say I cared about SOAP. Just that I was writing a book. It isn't on SOAP, but I do need to look at the best of SOAP as a comparison.