Web Services
Web Services are open standard (XML, SOAP) based applications that exchange data over the Internet. Many application, system, and programming languages support this standard and thus enable easy integration of external services. seekda allows you to search through the largest collection of Web Services known.
Long Term Development of Web Services
seekda is continuously crawling the Web for services. Web Services are identified by their technical interface specification (a WSDL document). Although many WSDL documents are fairly technical, they provide us with the basis for our analysis. Motivated by experience in research projects the seekda co-founder Holger Lausen had already set up a crawler for Web Services in 2006. seekda can now access statistical data about the development of Web Service over the last two years.
Number of Web services found during the past
25 months
We have been tracking the number of Web Services and statistics about the availability of those services since our very first analysis of publicly available Web Services. Our statistics keep you up to date about the latest developments in the Web Service sector. The following graph shows the expansion of this market over the last 25 months.
Recent Development
The rate at which our crawlers detect new services varies greatly and depends on many factors. During our analysis we filter duplicates, malformed and un-available services. Thus we do not count the number of interface specifications found, but rather the number of real services available in the Web.
new services per day during the last week |
new providers per day during the last week |
