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This video demonstration shows how to search UDDI registries, locate WSDL files, invoke Web service methods using SOAP, and then save the Web service call for use in XML data mapping projects in Stylus Studio.

The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group has released its first three Working Drafts for the Web Services Addressing specification, which provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages.

A lot of postings I've seen in the last week follow nicely on a "Web Services War Stories" session I saw at Foo Camp, suggesting that Web Services, while still important for some groups of developers, may have lost their broader promise.

XWebServices.com announced today the release of numerous enhancements to its XWebCheckOut web service. XWebCheckOut is an XML/SOAP based web service which provides integration and management of the standard e-commerce shopping cart checkout process (Basket -> Shipping -> Billing -> Credit Card -> Receipt) to client applications.

Vordel, the XML security company, and Entrust, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTU), a world-leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, announced today that a major global distribution agreement has been signed that licenses Entrust to resell and support Vordel products worldwide. Incorporating VordelSecure, the XML gateway, and VordelDirector, the XML security server, into the Entrust(R) Secure Identity Management Solution portfolio will help enable Entrust to expand a single, high-performance and scalable solution that secures both Web site and Web service access to its enterprise customers.

New service enables municipalities such as counties to integrate voter registration systems with state voter registration systems yet maintain autonomy of systems; allows states to maintain central repository of registered voters for federal elections while ensuring greater buy-in from constituent municipalities.

A transport company's trucks are scheduled for bogus pickups. A financial services firm's investment data is given away for free. A health insurance provider's private patient data is exposed. These are the disastrous situations that can occur when Web services data is nefariously snatched midstream.

Members of the OASIS Web Services Security Technical Committee are completing new work in the form of WSS profile specifications. The five profiles under development and review will complement the documents published as WSS 1.0 in April 2004.

The Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) specification has been presented to W3C as a Member Submission by BEA, IBM, Microsoft, SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems.

As part of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) ongoing commitment to enterprise application interoperability, customers and system integrators today can begin taking advantage of two new Web Part toolkits and a Web services toolkit for Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) Products and Technologies that enable them to connect systems from multiple vendors using XML Web services standards.

FreeCRM.com, the world's only completely free, multi-user, on-demand CRM software solution for small and medium-sized businesses, has surpassed 6,000 corporate subscriptions and almost 20,000 users as of August 1st. After only 9 months of operation, FreeCRM.com is poised to become the largest on-demand CRM software service providers, bringing free CRM software to small businesses everywhere.

A project being undertaken by leading members of the auto industry next month could facilitate the convergence of much-needed capabilities found in the ebXML transaction standard into the three most widely accepted Web-services specifications.

Reactivity and RSA Security have launched new products to protect web apps - something they hope will encourage companies to invest in software-as-a-service projects.

This article describes how InfoPath submits data to a Web service and two methods for submitting the contents of an InfoPath form to a Web service.

As Web services continue to become an integral part of enterprise Web strategies, IT managers are increasingly looking for ways to lock them down.

In a paper published last month, Sun claimed that Java based web services outperform .NET based web services both in throughput and response times. Microsoft has released a paper on TheServerSide.NET responding to those claims stating that Sun’s representation of the .NET performance was understated by 2 to 3 times and that in many, but not all cases, .NET exceeded the Java benchmarks.

Australia’s intellectual property governing body, IP Australia, has embarked on a world-leading Web services project that will enable electronic patent lodgement to reduce the amount of manual processing required.