We keep discovering new potential applications for seekda’s Web Services Search engine. Markus Noebauer has used our engine in his Mobile Service Locator plugin for the Mobile Scenario Presenter (MSP/L). The Mobile Scenario Presenter, which is a Requirement Engineering tool, aims to provide a simple frontend allowing interacting with Web Services. The MSL, which supports service discovery through seekda engine, was developed to run on a mobile platform such as a pocket PC.
We have been very much impressed by the video produced by the Service Web 3.0 project consortium and we decide to share it with our own visitors. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributions, the consortium created a video to be viewed by non-experts about next generation of the Internet. We would not manage to produce a better video ourselves and we believe that this is probably these days the best movie explaining to non-experts of how the Web of Services (promoted also so much by seekda) could look like in the near future.
seekda continues to expand its technological leadership in the field of Web Service and e-commerce technologies through its research projects. Together with the Service-Finder consortium, which consist of prominent research organizations such as CEFRIEL, Ontoprise and University of Sheffield we would like to announce the release of the alpha version of the Service-Finder portal for Web Service discovery. Service-Finder project aims at developing a platform for service discovery in which Web Services are embedded in a Web 2.0 environment. Service-Finder portal has been build up on a comparable set of public Web Service descriptions as the ones available at seekda portal. The prototype provides extensions with semantic annotations (e.g. categorization) and Web 2.0 features. On the current alpha version of the portal users can search for services by doing free-text search or by browsing categories and/or tags. Once the Service-Finder technology is consolidated, seekda aims at integrating it into its own portal.
Web Service Ideas Contest was a competition in which participants used their imagination to envision how real world problems could be solved with Web Service technologies. Participants shared with seekda their ideas of how services could be used in completely new contexts. The contest took place in September 2008 and we announced winners on the 10th of October. We thank all participants for sharing their great ideas. We plan to further collaborate with selected ones on these initial ideas.
See the original call and the results of the competition at contest page.
Are you a Web Service Technology Expert or do you have the ultimate plan how to realize a phenomenal Web API? Do you enjoy discovering new ways of using service technologies or addressing real-world technical challenges of modern distributed applications? Then enter seekda’s Web Service Ideas Contest and win a notebook or an iPod!
Web Service Ideas Contest is a competition in which you use your imagination to envision how real world problems can be solved with Web Service technologies. Take part in our contest and let us know about your ideas of how services could be used in completely new contexts. To win a notebook you simply have to describe what your conceived Web Service should be able to do and who might use it for what purpose.
Here’s how it works: All you need is to login (or register) and fill out the submission form. You will have till the 26th of September to describe your idea for a great service.
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: Continue reading “Web Service Tester Freely Available” »
… just got the following mail from an enthusiastic seekda user:
I am a researcher and a developer involved in a couple of EU projects. In one of the projects, specifically SWING (Semantic Web Services Interoperability for Geospatial Decision Making, FP6 STREP, http://www.swing-project.org), I needed to translate several words (ontology concept names, to be more specific) from English to some other language (e.g. French). Automatically, of course. First I tought it will take me at least a weak to get some machine translation lib figured out but it actually took me only two minutes with seekda I simply typed in the query “translation” and selected one of the listed Web services. I created the stub for C# and wrote these few lines of code:
public static void Main() {
TranslationMode transl_mode_obj = new TranslationMode();
transl_mode_obj.ObjectID = "en_de";
TranslationService transl_srv = new TranslationService();
Console.WriteLine(transl_srv.Translate(transl_mode_obj, "Seekda is extremely useful!"));
}
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. Continue reading “Web Service Tester Online” »
Several month ago we have launched an initial beta version of our Web Service search engine. We have today moved the search to our new company home seekda.com.
To see our Search Engine in action, join those who already participate in our private beta and sign up today.
I simply typed in the query “translation” and selected one of the listed Web services. I created the stub for C# and wrote these few lines of code: