Neat, www.xmethods.net added some services, supports WSDL, and verifies
all services daily. I'm sure there's more good stuff to come...
> From thong@xmethods.net Thu Jan 11 06:37:03 2001
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> General Announcements:
> * XMethods now lists WSDL descriptions for most services.
> WSDL provides structured service descriptions that can be consumed
> by many SOAP client implementations for autobinding purposes.
> For more information on WSDL, plase see
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-wsdl.html
> * We now verify all services daily and have an associated status
> indicator.
> * XMethods is featured in a great SOAP tutorial by Graham Glass, found
> in IBM's Developerworks webservices section.
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-peer2/?dwzone=ws
> * Numbers: We have 6 organizations (including XMethods itself) that
> have collectively published 21 services, written in 7 different
> SOAP server implementations.
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> New Services (in chronological order of submission) since last
> mailing:
> Fortune (by lemurlabs)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=17
> Returns XML-formatted fortunes randomly chosen from dictionary files
> WSDL Interface (by XMethods)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=20
> Returns a WSDL file for a requested service based on input query
> XMethods Listings (by XMethods)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=23
> Returns a listing of all XMethods services. This is the same
> information that's browsable over the web, but with a SOAP
> interface.
> whois (by Razorsoft)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=24
> Returns the "whois" listing for any domain name
> Bombay Stock Exchange Stock Quotes (by ITFinity)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=25
> Returns delayed quotes for BSE listings
> ElevenProspect RSS (by ElevenProspect)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=27
> Returns the Rich Site Summary (RSS) descriptions for a variety
> of developer-oriented websites.
> Globally Unique ID (by ITFinity)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=28
> Returns a globally unique identifier.
> Address Management and Control (by Lucin)
> http://www.xmethods.net/detail.html?id=29
> A collection of 63 methods that allow the user
> to create, manipulate, and search a personal addressbook
> stored on the Lucin server.
---- Adam@KnowNow.Com> > Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. > > -- Edward Tufte > Great quote from a great man! References?
It's from this seminar:
http://www.uwm.edu/People/david/tufte.html
I got the attribution from JOHO:
http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-dec18-00.html
I've also seen it attributed to Vint Cerf:
http://www.varsity.cam.ac.uk/8025694E0073CFEB/Pages/12112000_x.html
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