[Tallahassee-pm] Soap presentation

[Phillip Tyre]

>From "Professional PHP Web Services"
	Re: UDDI

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	Unlike normal search engines, the discovery layer is XML-based
and is exposed as a Web Service, which may also have a web interface as
operators currently do to make them easy for people to use. By using a
Web Service registry to look up other Web Services, software systems can
dynamically look up the description for a Web Service, download it, and
generate a client automatically at runtime.
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Hehe, doesn't sound easy, but there you go!
Unfortunately a bit of looking turns up:
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July 15, 2003 - A few years ago, when Web services were envisioned as
creating interconnected applications that spanned across businesses,
public Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
registries were seen as a tree on which to find the fruit-or external
Web services.

Now that Web services are used almost exclusively for internal
development and integration, not only has the hype surrounding the
public UDDI registries subsided, but the information in them hasn't
grown either.

"In general, the public registry is not seeing a lot of action," said
Jim Sweeney, director of product development at WAND Inc., which built a
third-party registry for IBM Corp.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/news/082/special2.htm for the full article. I
rate it worth the read.

https://uddi.ibm.com/ubr/registry.html can get you to IBM's UDDI
registry, but you have to register for access.



-----Original Message-----
From: James Tillman [mailto:jptillman at comcast.net] 
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:53 AM
To: Phillip Tyre
Cc: PerlMongers
Subject: Re: [Tallahassee-pm] Soap presentation

Thanks, Phillip.  I especially appreciated the interaction and questions
that came up during the presentation.  It was nice for it to be a
give-and-take session, rather than just me running my mouth.

I forgot to point out something in the meeting: several sites provide
"web servicy" type interfaces.  Google and Oreilly's Meerkat are the
most famous:

http://www.google.com/apis/  (They use SOAP and WSDL. Very hip.)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/rss/2000/05/09/meerkat_api.html  (The
coolest thing about Meerkat is its backend is written in Perl.  It's one
of the coolest news services on the net in my book)

Google is a search engine web service.  Meerkat is an RSS web service. 
The neat thing about Meerkat is that it supports querystring-based
access (Attn: Mike!), XML-RPC, and SOAP access.  This allows you to use
it as a learning tool when you're learning Web Services. (hint, hint,
hint)  The Web Services in Perl book uses the Meerkat service for its
examples.  Pretty handy.

jpt

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 13:31, Phillip Tyre wrote:
> A big round of applause for Jamie for that excellent presentation on
> soap/xml. 
> 
> Thank you for the time and effort, I got a god bit from it.
> 
> pt
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