Dear Umbraco Experts,

I've got a new site running under Umbraco version 7. At some future point I'll need to access information about the members from a third party application (check authentication details, check group membership).

I was planning on writing my own webservice wrapper of the membership functions I need but I've read a few articles (links removed) talking about the built-in webservices. Rummaging around, I can't find the same end-points any more and the umbraco.webservices project says that's been removed, and is also described as a "legacy" project which doesn't suggest I should be using it.

Am I missing the built-in service? Should I be installing the Umbraco.webservices package? Am I best of just writing my own stuff?

Thanks!