2007
OFAC SDN and Blocked Persons
Web services created to aid banks in meeting the requirements of the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).
The specification for the data returned by the service is at: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/dat_spec.txt
Downloading a Binary File from a Web Service using Axis2 and SOAP with Attachments
by 1 otherApache Axis2 is well supported for sending and receiving binary payloads with SOAP using several standard mechanisms such as Base64 encoded binary, SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) and SOAP with Attachments (SwA).
2006
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Web services and Axis2 architecture
Explore the elements of Apache Axis2 and see why, with its modular and extensible nature, it's becoming the next-generation Web services platform.
2005
Call SOAP Web services with AJAX
Part 1: Build the Web services client
Yahoo! News Tag Soup
by 4 othersHow to build automatically a list of "popular" tags from the latest Yahoo headlines news, with Yahoo's Content Analysis Web Service.
Misunderstanding REST: A look at the Bloglines, del.icio.us and Flickr APIs
One should be careful with GET when building RESTful apps
In a RESTful world, do not to use GET for non-safe and non-idempotent actions!
See! See! I told you not to use GET for non-safe and non-idempotent actions! I told you your web applications would break!
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