seekda’s Web Services Invoker (called by us also in the past the Web Services Tester) has gone through a set of considerable improvements. We decided that the user-friendly and easy to use invoker would be more than ever a priority. With this new release we focused to a greater extent on improving the graphical presentation of information available to our users. Also the interaction between a service and a user should now improve extensively.
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We have been listening to you and we try our best to continuously improve the user experience at seekda portal.
Over the last few months we have made numerous style and layout changes to enhance the look and feel. The new graphic design went live today.
Thank you for your constant support!
The seekda team
Now you have one more possibility to get in touch with us, to offer us your feedback and to help us improve everything we do. To get instantaneous answers to your questions, just follow the chat link visible on the top of the right menu on most pages (e.g. http://seekda.com). The link will be only visible if one of our team members is actually online. When initiating a chat you will be put in a queue and unless we are in the middle of the night in Europe (although many of us work also at night, so you can always give it a try), you will be connected directly to one of us. We will be more than happy to answer any of your questions.
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At seekda our developers never sleep… That statement is maybe an exaggeration 
, but the truth is that while lots of seekda development effort is currently committed to development of Web Services marketplace (read about seekda innovation in our about section), we continue to enhance the existing Web Services search engine portal with many new and useful features.
With our recent deployment, the history of viewed Web Services is now available to you from the context menu. It remains invisible until you browse for the first time the page of a particular Web Services. Once you find your first Web Service, the history box gets activated in the left context menu.
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Since March 2008 seekda users can test every Web Services found at seekda using our online Web Service Tester. We have presented the Web Service Tester in our March article. Basically the seekda Web Service Tester enables to quickly check whether a particular Web Service is exactly doing what you want without writing a single line of code.
The data collected on how often a Web Services is used gives us some indication of its usefulness. Since we believe this can also be interesting for both consumer and providers of Web Services, we have created a special page with these Web Services that have been tested most often. The number of tests by different users is one of many criteria which influences our ranking: we also keep track of how often a service is viewed or commented on, as well as take its availability (read about details in Monitoring the Availability of Web Services article) into consideration.
Since we have released the initial version of our Web Service Tester, we have implemented a series of bug fixes and additional features. From now on you are able to use the seekda Web Service Tester also without opening an account with us. Only if you are using this service on a regular basis, you will need to login to do an unlimited number of invocations.
One of the new features we have introduced is the support of the XML schema data type base64Binary. If you wonder when you need it, here is one quick example of a service that uses this data type to enable you to upload files:
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Many of the current Web Service repositories suffer from outdated data. We at seekda avoid this by regularly verifying the connectivity of all services in our repository. Additionally, our long term monitoring database allows us to provide you with a useful service ranking and helps you to pick the right service for your purpose.
Instead of showing you just the current status, we record and show the status for every single service from the time we found it. For example, take a look at the RuleReasoning service a research related service offered by University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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Our search engine provides you access to more then 20 000 Web Services. Our ranking algorithm considers service availability, quality of the service documentation and other metrics to give you the most relevant results first. However in order to decide whether a particular Web Service is exactly doing what you want, in many cases you will need to try it out. Our Web Service Tester enables you to do this quickly without needing to write a line of code. The Web Service tester generates Web based forms, allowing you to invoke any WSDL based Web Service on the Web.
During an initial testing phase the service is available as private beta for registered users. Try for example the GlobalWeather service (provided by webservicex.net) which gives you the current weather for all major cities around the world, or the iplookup service (provided by ippages.com) that provides detailed information for a specific internet address. If you don’t have an account with seekda yet, register now - registration will take you less then a minute.
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