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

by sh1mmer on 11/30/2008, 3:10 AM with 8 comments

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 :)

  • by xchecker on 11/30/2008, 7:56 AM

    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?

  • by dizz on 11/30/2008, 12:02 PM

    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

  • by timcederman on 11/30/2008, 7:28 AM

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

  • by zacharydanger on 11/30/2008, 4:30 AM

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

  • by wheels on 11/30/2008, 5:23 AM

    MS Live Search has a SOAP API as well.

  • by jmtame on 11/30/2008, 3:43 AM

    I second that