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.

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.

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Described as "The world's largest list of Web Services providers. Find Web Services. The Complete Resource for Web Services Consumers. Thousands of Web Services worldwide for all your needs." Very comprehensive and lots of information.

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

.NET XML WebServices Community. Find WebServices, articles, source code and WSDL.

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

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.

Find out how to create and use secure SOAP Web services for Java or C++. Understand WSDL and UDDI, and discover how JP Morgan, Deutsche Telekom and others have used Web services.

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.

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.

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

The Web Distributed Data Exchange, or WDDX, is a free, open XML-based technology that allows Web applications created with any platform to easily exchange data with one another over the Web. The WDDX specification and toolkit is available for download.

Java Skyline is an established magazine for Java Server developers. This section is an online resource of Web Services related development tools, news, articles and other relevant links. Part of a comprehensive site which provides considerable content on all things Java.

With over 1,100 links, this is the world's largest resource page dedicated to XML and Web Services. Also provides a fully customizable user-interface.

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.

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.

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

BEA developers resources centre with a good array of both educational and news articles, plus product downloads.

Providers of WebServiced based solutions for the telecommunication industry.

cfoinfo tracks the world of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and business Web Services that are relevant to the MBS world. News, articles and comment on MBS and Web Services

Compendium on Web Services protocols. Readers submit links to working Web Services projects.

A set of high-level tutorials covering first and second-generation (WS-*) Web services standards, including BPEL4WS, WS-Security, WS-Coordination, and WS-ReliableMessaging.

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.

While Userland is undeniably a commercial web-site it is also a resource centre and launchpad for a number of important standards including XML-RPC.org, Soapware.org and Weblogs.com. If only all companies were like this!