Web Services in the Web 2.0 Era

Tips and Tricks and Useful Info About Web Service Technology

Whitepaper: Best Practices for Email Validation
Summary: This document contains a step-by-step guide and example code that shows you how to use available operations in DOTS Email Validation to fully validate email addresses, beyond the scope of other email validators. It starts by defining new features, including an at-a-glance quality score that helps validate email addresses in the face of modern mail server technology, and takes you, step by step, through the process of using this service to achieve the best possible results.
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Ruby on Rails and Web Services
Summary: Ruby on Rails' transition to support REST-based Web services, rather than the more traditional SOAP-based Web services, has created some frustration among the development community. As RoR technology progresses, the complexity of maintaining compatibility between Rails and SOAP libraries with other frameworks such as Java and .NET increases as well. Alternative connection methods exist for applications that don't support the SOAP protocol and are discussed in this article.
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Google Maps Mashup With Contact Validation Web Services
Summary: Web services can be fun and simple to use. So much so that one of Service Objects' Web service developers decided to create a mashup of our DOTS Address Validation Plus and one of the Web's most popular 2.0 applications, Google Maps, to show how easy our Web services integrate into third-party platforms, APIs and frameworks.
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Email Validation: How It Works
Summary: There are many email validation solutions available to Web developers and some are more effective than others. Learn how Web services differ from standard email validation scripts. Learn six things that every email address validator should do and what happens behind the scenes the moment an email address is entered into a Web form that uses an email validation Web service.
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