What
is servicereg.com?
This is an experiment to see if
we can create a search engine/registry for web services.
I
am a developer. How
do I use this thing?
You can use this one of two ways. First,
you can use servicereg.com to search for services that you in use in your own applications. For
example, if you wanted to write a stock picker application and need a list of the
Fortune 500, you could find a service that offers that information here. Second,
you can register your own services with servicereg.com. This
will allow other developer to “mash-up” your service/data and create new and wonderful
things.
Ok.
I got it. Now how do I “use” it?
It is simple. Use Atom
Publishing Protocol (APP). You
can do everything you need with one URL: http://www.servicereg.com/services.collection. You
can register your services by send a simple POST with an ATOM entry contain your service
information. You can search for services
by send a simple GET with a querystring (q={search}). You
can enumerate all the registered services by sending a simple GET.
More
to Come…
[The implementation is not close to being done. There are tons of issues
& I have no time (the implementation that I am posting has been done since November,
but I haven't had time to fix anything). As you can see I am no UI expert (I
know about the issues on the Mac browsers). Regardless, the APP code is available
at
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