Web Services Directory

TeeChart Pro web service provides charting images from custom data.

The "Find Web Services on Local Machine" link on the Add Web Reference dialog is missing from Visual Studio .NET RTM. But DISCO isn't gone; it's hibernating. Learn how to re-enable DISCO searches with a simple change to your machine.config file. Get ready for DISCO's replacement, Web Service Inspection Lanaguage (WSIL), with an early Microsoft example that creates .wsil files and a C# project that generates a master inspection.wsil file from existing .disco files. Examples are from http://www.oakleaf.ws.

Searchable Database for Artificial Life and Alife-related sites on the Net

Retrieve data from the Web Service of the Day" database. The aim of this service is very simple. Web Services are cool - but some are more cool than others... every day, I feature a Web Service that I think is a bit out of the ordinary, and encourage you to go and take a look at it. Since the success of SOAP and Web Services in general will depend upon smart people creating clever and innovative things with the technology, I hope this site serves as a showcase for their assembled talents, and helps in my own way to encourage the industry to move forward successfully.

A quick reference, W3C-compliant glossary of the most commonly used (and misunderstood) Web services terms.

The StrikeIron Real Time Quotes Web Service provides real-time quote and book information for securities traded on the INET ECN. Island is an electronic marketplace that enables market professionals to display and match limit orders for stocks and other securities.

HIRON XML Web Service is intended to demonstrate the possibilities of new technologies in distributed calculations in the Operations Research area, for example, for global optimization. One of the basic features of this Web service is that it controls the native ANSI C++ compiler that allows the creation of a high performance Web service that is then used to solve global optimization problems.

Web service that allows users to create CAPTCHA("Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart") images and validate the response entered.

Xara has developed technology that allows the end user and webmaster to benefit from Web Services. Xara Modules are web page components that can be added to any web page that provide a displayed user interface or representation of the web service. Additionally, Xara have developed a simple web platform integration API to allow the Web Service Modules to be available to web authors.

StrikeIron’s Web Services Analyzer for Windows allows anyone to quickly and easily discover, understand, and utilize any XML-based Web service with a click of the mouse. The data structures, data requirements, behavior, and expected results are immediately available in easy to understand graphical and table formats.

A centralised brokerage that can help customers find web services and help web service providers advertise their functionality using specialist searching facilities and quality assurance checking.

DotGNU is a Free Software project to create a platform for webservices that can be written in a variety of different programming languages including Java and C#.

Using these services, web site owners and developers can now create applications capable of interacting with the Amazon.com catalog, search engine, shopping cart and merchandising tools to provide more robust offerings on third party web sites. Instead of simply linking to our various products, they can embed search results, top sellers, customized lists, recommendations, and even the Amazon.com shopping cart within their applications.

A collection of free webservices

Links to ActiveX-related resources at Visual Basic web directory with topics such as; database programming, design&development, XML, ActiveX tech, VBA & office development, etc.

IBM mainframe-specific portal, with search engine and browsable categories: hardware, software and education directories; career center, Web links, published articles (some by site staff).

mScape™ is a complete Web Services Manager that has been specifically developed to manage the deployment, delivery, and operation of Web Services. mScape™ offers real time performance monitoring and highlighting of dependencies between different parts of your IT infrastructure, identification of who is requesting each Web Service, and the ability to alter the behaviour of Web Service delivery.

Learn how to use the XmlValidatingReader class to validate document/literal .NET XML Web services request and response messages. The downloadable sample ASP.NET Web service consumer project connects to the ReportsWS crosstab Web service at http://www.oakleaf.ws/ReportsWS/ReportsWS.asmx. The ASP.NET consuming client is live at http://www.oakleaf.ws/CTSchema/.

Address Meister is a web-service for postal address verification and correction. It provides current, high-quality address data and verification logic. Address Meister validates an address or returns an informative error.

Grand Central provides a Web Services network through which companies can integrate their services. In addition to facilitating interoperability, Grand Central provides the control, visibility and security needed to effectively manage integration processes and interactions. Delivered as a subscription service.

Online Access to the 1Gb OakLeaf US Code of Federal Regulations sample database, which delivers XML or XHTML documents for tables of contents and section text. CFRSect returns the text of a specified CFR section as an XML or XHTML response document.

Microsoft's Web Services Development Kit Technical Preview enables username/password digital signing and symmetric (shared-secret) encryption of SOAP messages. Learn how to sign and encrypt SOAP response messages with this Visual Basic .NET client and set of customized Web services. Give the ASP.NET version of the Windows form client a try at http://www.oakleaf.ws/WSDKSecClientASP/.

mod_perlservice is a module for the apache http server that enables you to directly call perl methods and subs over the internet from a client-side application using a variety of languages including Perl, C, and Action Script.