REST web service WSDL? 

With a good RESTful service, it’s not necessary to generate WADL (let alone the much-less-well-fitting WSDL) for it because it will self-describe. By “self-describe” I specifically mean that it will deliver documents describing all the (relevant) resources published by the service, and that using a standard HTTP OPTIONS request on any of these will produce … Read more

What is the relationship between WCF, Rest and SOAP?

WCF isn’t automatically REST or SOAP, but you can make it that way. What you need here is a tutorial: WCF http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/406096/A-beginners-tutorial-for-understanding-Windows REST http://rest.elkstein.org/ Here’s some other interesting stuff: WCF – REST / SOAP WCF and REST Or you can do a google/bing/metacrawler/altavista search on your own…..

Where to find free public Web Services?

https://www.programmableweb.com/ — Great collection of all category API’s across web. It not only show cases the API’s , but also Developers who use those API’s in their applications and code samples, rating of the API and much more. They have more than apis they also have sdk and libraries too.

Web Service vs WCF Service

This answer is based on an article that no longer exists: Summary of article: “Basically, WCF is a service layer that allows you to build applications that can communicate using a variety of communication mechanisms. With it, you can communicate using Peer to Peer, Named Pipes, Web Services and so on. You can’t compare them … Read more

What is tempuri.org?

Webservices require unique namespaces so they don’t confuse each others schemas and whatever with each other. A URL (domain, subdomain, subsubdomain, etc) is a clever identifier as it’s “guaranteed” to be unique, and in most circumstances you’ve already got one.

SOAP vs REST (differences)

Unfortunately, there are a lot of misinformation and misconceptions around REST. Not only your question and the answer by @cmd reflect those, but most of the questions and answers related to the subject on Stack Overflow. SOAP and REST can’t be compared directly, since the first is a protocol (or at least tries to be) … Read more