Any simple & free & registration-free web service available?

[Glen Mazza <gl...@gmail.com>]

Hello, for my SOAP client tutorial[1] up until now I've been using a free &
registration-free ZIP code lookup service  available from StrikeIron.  I've
been told that the web service will very soon be retired.  The others I
have, for eBAY and Amazon, both require (free) registration, which is not
too bad but if I can avoid needing to have newbies do that it would be good.

I can probably host a simple web service on Google App Engine if I need to
(and may do that anyway), but does anyone know of a simple, free,
registration-free & publicly available web service I could otherwise use?

Thanks,
Glen

[1] http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/creating_a_soap_client_with

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Re: Any simple & free & registration-free web service available?

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

On Tue February 23 2010 6:22:15 pm Glen Mazza wrote:
> Hello, for my SOAP client tutorial[1] up until now I've been using a free &
> registration-free ZIP code lookup service  available from StrikeIron.  I've
> been told that the web service will very soon be retired.  The others I
> have, for eBAY and Amazon, both require (free) registration, which is not
> too bad but if I can avoid needing to have newbies do that it would be
> good.

I'm really not aware of any.   Hmmmmm....    Most require some sort of 
registration to be able to track it and also prevent various kinds of attacks.
 
> I can probably host a simple web service on Google App Engine,

Well, it wouldn't be able to be written with JAX-WS as the jaxws packages are 
firewalled in GAE.    You could write a simple servlet that "mimics" a 
webservice as that would probalby work.   The simple CXF frontend MIGHT work, 
I haven't really tried.

> if I need to
> (and may do that anyway), but does anyone know of a simple, free,
> registration-free & publicly available web service I could otherwise use?

Another option:  we could ask for a zone at Apache and install and manage a 
tomcat instance or similar that that we could deploy our own sample services.  
If you are interested in pursuing that, I'd be happy to put in a request.

Dan


> 
> Thanks,
> Glen
> 
> [1] http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/creating_a_soap_client_with

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