Ricky White

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I dont want to re-invent the wheel and build a new WCF or Rest webservice. Please advise, how can I find out if the service I need has already been created by someone? I would love to be able to re-use that WCF/Rest service.<br />
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Example: I need a service that would convert currencies.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Ricky
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I dont want to re-invent the wheel and build a new WCF or Rest webservice. Please advise, how can I find out if the service I need has already been created by someone? I would love to be able to re-use that WCF/Rest service.

Example: I need a service that would convert currencies.

Thanks,
Ricky

How to discover Rest and WCF services?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

Representational state transfer (REST) is an architectural style that gives a coordinated set of constraints to the design of components in a distributed hypermedia system used to design networked applications. RESTful systems typically communicate over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with the same HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) that web browsers use to retrieve web pages and to send data to remote servers. REST interfaces with external systems using resources identified by Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be operated upon using standard verbs.