[iaincollins]

This is a module for node.js which turns other modules into RESTful JSON based web services. It also auto-generates some documentation and web based forms so you can try them out.

It's handy if you a have a module or simple library that does something you want to expose to other people or that you want to be able consume from another platform (e.g. to leverage functionality in a node library from an app written in another language or from a browser).

Despite the hacky nature of it I've hooked up a demo against a dozen or so existing services: http://service-o-matic.iaincollins.com (I expect this will probably break)

It's a hack created in an afternoon, there are no tests yet, it only supports GET and doesn't work with all modules. It's intended to spark a bit of interest in this approach to service creation (auto-generated web services already being something that .NET and to a slightly lesser extent Java both do well).

I'd be up for working/collaborating on it further if there is sufficient interest (adding tests, new features, docblock parsing, JSON-schema generation, support for currently unsupported modules, etc).