Tag Archives: web services

Using Ruby and HTTParty to consume web services the easy way

By | Published: January 26, 2009
Web services seem to be multiplying like rabbits these days. For a good sampling of just how many there are check out the Programmable Web API list. In general it is pretty easy to consume basic REST web services but after you have done it enough it starts getting old. Thankfully for those of us [...]
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SOAP on the Google App Engine platform

By | Published: December 2, 2008
I generally don't recomend using SOAP instead of REST but I have been required to use SOAP so much now that I think it is inevitably going to be a requirement for a long time for certain projects. So when I noticed a question on stack overflow about using SOAP on the Google App Engine [...]
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C# custom SOAP header

By | Published: August 10, 2008
While working on an SOAP service I needed to create a number of clients for different languages. This would normally not be that big of a challenge except that the SOAP service had custom headers for doing authentication. Because of the complexity in setting up Axis to use WS-Security the choice was made to do [...]
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Good Presentation on REST with ActiveResource

By | Published: March 28, 2007
I wrote about SOAP vs REST a few weeks ago. Today I noticed this article with a presentation about putting together Rails REST services with ActiveResource. Tags: ruby, rails
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SOAP vs REST

By | Published: February 21, 2007
Recently it seems like the SOAP vs REST debate is heating up. Most of the debate seems to be leaning toward convincing people to not use SOAP based on its increasing complexity. Different people have different views on what REST is but in general if you look at the SOAP specifications or SOAP Standards and [...]
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