Web Services Directory

An organization dedicated to promoting the development, deployment, and use of web services. This site contains a list of web services and useful "how to get started" guides for creating SOAP-based web services. Recommended as a starting point for practical, hands-on information on SOAP and all things SOAP related.

Vendor-neutral webservices resource site - news, articles and whitepapers on Web services technologies - XML ebXML UDDI Biztalk SOAP .Net dot Net IBM Sun and more.

WebSevicesMall presents information and resources on Web Services and related technologies like XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, .Net Framework and J2EE.

Online tutorial on JSP, Servlets, JWIG, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.

The Web Services Institute (WSIis a global alliance of leading organizations dedicated to maximizing the business benefits of Web Services. WSIs core program, the Leadership Collaborative, is a multi-client initiative that provides actionable research and advice on Web Services and their effect business strategy and organization.

Stencil Group is a strategic business consultancy which concentrates on leading-edge technologies. The web services resources section contains useful articles, whitepapers and links to other web services resources

Web Services Strategy is an on and offline community focused purely on the business potential of Web services. Whilst technology is featured heavily, it is always from the perspective of what business models and functionality it can enable, with a view to describing how it can make or save money for organisations. Articles, whitepapers and a unique "personal guru" for members.

Live web services hosted at CapeScience.com. Useful as a collection of working web services which can act as a reference for web service developers.

The objective of the VAWSS is to create the equivalent of a "Good Housekeeping" seal of approval for Web Services developers and analysts. By publishing recommendations which are adhered to by its members and the industry as a whole consumers can feel confident about the quality of the Web Services they use.

InterFAX Send allows users and developers to fax from a variety of interfaces - Web Service, COM Object and Email Interface

Learn about SOAP client using several languages. Tutorial covering Java (Jax-Rpc/Axis), PHP (NuSaop), Perl (SOAP::Lite), Python (SOAPpy and ZSI) and C/C++ (gSOAP). HTTP Post to Web service in Java, Perl and Python. Clients for advanced .NET web service.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. The organization’s deliverables are targeted at proving resources for any Web services developer to create interoperable Web services, and verify that their results are compliant with both industry standards and WS-I recommended guidelines.

Updated daily and maintains a large directory of categorized Web services-related Best Web Links, dedicated Web services-specific search engine, daily Web services-related news, tips, columns, Webcasts with leading Web services authorities, Ask-the-Experts feature, subscriptions to free Web services-related emails and more.

This book is for Visual Basic developers who intend to create and consume production-quality, data-intensive ASP.NET XML Web services on intranets or the Internet. The book also includes full coverage of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit for VB6 components. All Web service examples developed in the book are accessible from the OakLeaf Web site. Explore the full TOC, read or print a sample chapter, and check recent updates at http://www.oakleaf.ws/.

CapeScience is a developer community for Web Services. We offer resources, tools, tutorials, free online training and a forum to help developers work with Web Services technology.

Web Services are cool - but some are cooler than others... every day, this site features a Web Service that is a bit out of the ordinary - or just downright excellent.

The Ecademy is a resource for education and resources on e-Business, e-Commerce and Web Services. To keep up to date you can subcribe to the DailEnews or attend face-to-face events at major locations throughout the world. Recently launched a Web Services consulting capability.

A logically organised and content rich site providing news, information, links and a discussion forum for developers and others interested in Web Services.

A huge Yahoo style directory of categorized Web services resources. Our editors seek out and summarize the best Web services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, XML, Java, protocols and APIs, Application Servers and more.

A price guide to Web Service Providers (WSP) arranged by service, providers, reviews, popularity, and more.

A portal to key XML and Web Services specifications. Covers first and second generation (WS-*) Web Services standards.

A quick reference, W3C-compliant glossary of the most commonly used (and misunderstood) Web services terms.

XWSS.org is a forum which offers security professionals, application developers, product managers, system auditors and IT operations staff a way to exchange ideas and share information about XML Web Services and security issues. Includes discussion forums, news, articles, white papers and links.

Discussion Group for WebServices (spanish language only). subscription: webservices-latinos-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Yet another Web Services news and resources site but this time aimed at the business community and the non-specialists who need to evaluate the importance of Web Services to their business objectives. Well presented with the emphasis on practical value-added.