XML SOAP Web services list?

[vitinho444]

Hey guys, So I've been using SOAPUI to try stuff with SOAP web services with PHP, there are some to get stock quotes (god i love those) and to check the weather and what not.
So basically what I'm trying to find is a list with free-to-use (or register-able) SOAP (XML based if possible) web services for all kinds of stuff.

Those that i found using google were too outdated and the services itself had big downtime and low availability. The only one I got working was one that said every city in a given country or the stock quotes one, but it took a while to get the info, like 5 seconds.. :/

What you guys have ?

[Jackolantern]

Did you find this? It seems to be pretty exhaustive.

[vitinho444]

Yeah, most of those are unavailable... and those who seem available don't work in SOAPUI

[Jackolantern]

SOAP is going extinct compared to REST. RESTful web services have really taken over as the standard.

[vitinho444]

Do they work the same way? I kinda learned from this tut how to use SOAPUI and it's really simple

Basically you do a new client object with the ?WSDL link and you supply data and then you get XML with the data output.
This is my biggest fear in this part of the industry... You never know everything, and what if someone asks you to do EXACTLY what you just dont know... Imagine: I know Unity, CryEngine, Game Maker, INSERT_MORE_ENGINES_HERE. And they ask you to use UDK, and you stay there

[Jackolantern]

REST is basically just HTTP. HTTP has a number of "verbs" in its protocol. For years web devs only used two of them: GET and POST. But there are two more: PUT and DELETE. When all of these are taken together and combined with a clean URL scheme, you can begin to see what these verbs were designed to do:

GET: www.somesite.com/groceries/pizza (get the data stored for pizza)
DELETE: www.somesite.com/groceries/corn (delete the corn)
PUT: www.somesite.com/groceries/chips (replace the old chips with a new chips)
POST: www.somesite.com/groceries/cereal (add cereal)

[vitinho444]

Yeah i never heard of those

I'm gonna move on to RestFul then, so long SOAP, you had me for 1 hour, and it was a good 1 hour.
Thank you Jacko