Web Services Highlights from Around the Web

Techniques for Robust, Database-Driven Web Services
From Web Services Journal: Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager on the Business Components for Java development team, discusses how he built a recent Web services application.

'Simple' is Key to Web Services Best Practice
From atnewyork.com: "You can make a good case for using Web services if you make simple self-describing modular applications that are independent of any component model, implementation language, transport protocol, operating system and platform," says expert.

Web Services Security, Part 1
From WebServices.XML.com: The first in a four part series discussing major issues related to securing web services and covering the emerging XML-based security standards from the W3C and OASIS.

XML Transactions for Web Services
From XML.com: This three-part series of articles describes and demonstrates transactional Web services, elaborates why and when we may require web service transactions, and explains how WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction address the transactional requirements of Web services.

Special Report: Ensuring Successful Web Services Today and Tomorrow
From DevX.com: A five-part series on designing, developing and maintaining Web services, focusing on long-term sustainability and interoperability with existing IT systems.

Introduction to Web Services Management
From Developer.com: Analyze the requirements and develop a basic understanding of the core components of the Web Services Management Platform.

WebDictionary - WSDL v1.1
From SalCentral: A Web service that acts as a dictionary that translates keywords from one web programming language to the others.

Web services standards are good, but a Web services vision is better
From WebServices.org: The industry needs a common vision for Web services, and it needs it now for many reasons, but for starters, the customers want it.

Microsoft release Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Visual Studio .NET
From WebServices.org: Support for the latest Web services specifications, such as WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments.

META Group think Web services are key to 'Legacy externalisation'
From WebServices.org: 'According to META Group, more than 90% of large organizations will utilize host access products that externalize legacy applications via Web services by 2007.'

Web service objects in 15 minutes
From ITtoolbox: Read about a new software tool to make mainframes accessible to web services within 15 minutes.

Web Services and Straight Through Processing
From Web Services Architect: This article discusses the fundamentals of STP, the need for, driving forces behind, and benefits of STP, the current state of technology supporting STP, and the relationship of enterprise and business-to-business application integration and business process management with STP.

Web services : Demos
From IBM: You've read a lot about Web services, but have you ever seen them in action? Here's your chance.