Resources to help you connect to web services
The first time I was required to connect to a web service, I had no idea where to start, and ended up doing things the hard way. I needed to connect to a REST like web service in order to process a...
View ArticleSOAP, XML-RPC, and REST
We’ve been talking for a couple of days now in our information architecture class about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Although SOA isn’t exclusively based around web services, web services play...
View ArticleSOAP Server with PHP5 – part 1
Setting up a SOAP web service with php used to seem pretty intimidating to me, until I finally decided that I would hunker down and build my own WSDL. Now that I’ve successfully gone through the...
View ArticleSOAP Server with PHP5 – part 2: fun with wsdl
Part 1 of this series of blog posts should help you get started with setting up a simple soap server with one function, a stockquote request. It points you to the soap extension tutorial on the Zend...
View ArticleSOAP Server with PHP5 – part3: the glue code
Part 2 of this series of blog posts focused on creating your wsdl. Now we will move on to the “glue code” and putting it all together. In part 2, I created a wsdl that defined the application...
View ArticleBenefits of Service Oriented Architecture
I’m a believer in Service Oriented Archicecture (SOA). Some of the main benefits that I see from SOA is that it defines clear ownership of data, provides reusability of enterprise resources, maximizes...
View ArticleFamilySearch API
I just got word this week that the LDS Church is opening up an API for their new FamilySearch. I believe this will open up a whole array of innovative family history/genealogy applications. Never...
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