IDI is announcing the End of Life for the Address Validation SOAP web service. In order to provide additional functionality and simplify the integration process this web service has been replaced with the REST Address Validation Management web service which contains comparable functionality.
What this means
The End of Life for a web service means that it’s development life cycle is coming to a close. There will be set of milestones where the support from IDI for the component will be progressively reduced. The component will still be available for use up until the last milestone of End of Availability. On this date, any code that is still utilizing the component will stop working. Customer and third-party developers should utilize the time between the posting of this notice and the End of Availability to update any applicable code on their end.
Any new development projects starting after the posting of this notice should not plan on utilizing this component.
End of Life milestones: Address Validation SOAP Service
Milestones | Description | Date |
End of Life Announcement Date | Date this End of Life notice was first posted | 9/10/2019 |
End of Feature Support | Date where requests for adding new functionality (AR’s) to the component will no longer be accepted. | 9/10/2019 |
End of Development Support | Date where Developer Support Tickets for the component will no longer be accepted. | 1/1/2020 |
End of PR support (excl. Priority 1) | Date where Problem Reports for bug fixes will no longer be included in the component. This excludes any Priority 1 issues. | 9/10/2020 |
End of Availability | Date where the component can no longer be accessed. All applications developed using the component must be updated before this date or they will stop working. | 9/10/2022 |