November 3, 2001 - Web Service Depository -- XMethods

Yehuda Shiran November 3, 2001
Web Service Depository -- XMethods
Tips: November 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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As more and more Web services are written, you can find an increasing number of central depositories for public Web services. Such a depo will usually include a table of all supported Web services, and documentation for each one. Here is the table that XMethods uses:

And here is the documentation for the Weather - Temperature Web service:

You can call Web services from JavaScript. In upcoming tips and columns we'll cover the motivation and the implementation of Web services, and how to use them with JavaScript.