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Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services
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 :)
- jmtame 18y agoI second that
- zacharydanger 18y agoI know Chase's Paymentech payment gateway has a SOAP interface. Good? Maybe. SOAP? Yep.
- wheels 18y agoMS Live Search has a SOAP API as well.
- timcederman 18y agoGoogle does not currently have a publicly available SOAP web service, unless you already have a key.
- xchecker 18y agoJust 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?
- wheels 18y agoIt'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.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI 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.
- dizz 18y agoAmazon EC2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2.wsdl http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2.wsdl S3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdl 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 http://www.ecocoma.com/amazon_wsdl.aspx