Reactivity, Inc., the leading secure XML Web services deployment system, today announced the debut of “Accelerating Time-to-Market for Secure, High-Value Web Services,” a free Webcast discussing what application, Web services and security architects need to know to successfully deploy Web services solutions rapidly and securely. Presented by Forrester Research Vice President Randy Heffner and Reactivity CTO John Lilly, the Webcast provides a unique opportunity for IT professionals to hear two leading industry experts delve into issues and best practices to accelerate time-to-market for Web services initiatives. The Webcast will also examine how Reactivity customer Aeroplan, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Canada, was able to deploy its Web services securely within 38 days of a proof of concept, much faster than expected. Attendees will have the opportunity to pose their own questions to Mr. Heffner and Mr. Lilly.

Sana Security, Inc., a leader in host-based intrusion prevention software (HIPS), today announced a strategic alliance with Service Integrity, Inc., a developer of XML/Web Services monitoring, analysis and visibility software. Interoperability between the products creates a best-of-breed solution providing large organizations with real-time application security, forensic analysis and regulatory compliance for their Web Services infrastructures.

Worldwide spending on software in support of Web services-based projects will reach $11bn by 2008, compared to $1.1bn achieved in 2003, according to a new report from IDC. Driven by the desire to reduce costs, this technology is moving to the forefront of most IT department strategies as a critical option for solving integration issues, IDC argues. Many organizations are also looking to capitalize on what services-based technology offers to address future application needs it says.

XML-based standards being developed by multiple standards bodies, and currently in various iterations and levels of maturity, have become the bane of the Web services developer. However, while acknowledging that "standards bodies are notoriously slow," Gartner analysts believe the situation will improve in the next five years.

Web services remain a "moving target" in the view of Gartner Inc. analysts, but it doesn't stop them from predicting where the technology is going. If you liked the dot-com boom, hold onto your hat. One of the places Web services is going is into new e-commerce applications, which will be "widespread by 2009," predicted David Smith, a Gartner vice president and research fellow.

Microsoft Corp., together with six of the industry's leading identity management vendors, today previewed interoperable federated identity management solutions based on the Web services architecture (WS-*). Software companies IBM Corp., Netegrity Inc., Oblix Inc., OpenNetwork Technologies, Ping Identity Corp., RSA Security Inc. and Microsoft have successfully concluded work demonstrating how their identity management technologies interoperate using the Web Services Federation (WS-Federation) specification, part of the WS Security set of specifications. In his Tech•Ed keynote address today, Andrew Lees, corporate vice president for Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft, showed how federated identity management based on WS-Federation and the WS-* architecture will simplify the work of IT professionals as they seek to cut the cost and complexity of passing identity credentials across security and organization boundaries in a Web services environment.

DataPower and Computer Associates have extended their existing partnership for providing unified XML Web services security and management by integrating DataPower's XS40 XML Security Gateway with CA's eTrust Identity and Access Management Suite.

With work on the WS-I Basic Profile having wrapped up in March, the organization got a little granular Tuesday at Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit by turning its attention toward security.

Service Integrity(TM), developer of XML Visibility Software, is proud to announce the release of "Securing Web Services with WS-Security," the first comprehensive book covering the SAML 1.1 and WS-Security Standards. Published by SAMS Publishing, the book is co-authored by Dr. Jothy Rosenberg, founder, CEO and CTO of Service Integrity, and David Remy, Director and Product Architect for BEA Systems, Inc. The work will aid IT management and Web services developers as they comply with the WS-Security standard, which was approved as an official OASIS standard in April 2004.

Web services have matured to the point that they are ready to become mainstream in business application development, not just an experimental "Skunk Works" project, according to industry analysts speaking at an applications integration conference here Monday.

The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios with additional guidance for implementers of Web service technologies. The document examines how language, culture and related issues interact with Web services architecture and technology.

Three or more e-business companies have Web services and they want to connect, so what do they do? Send each other their WSDLs and hope for the best? That is probably not the best practice, according to Steve Ross-Talbot, co-chair of the W3C WS-Choreography Working Group, which has released the first draft of its Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 1.0.

PayPal, the global online payment service, today introduced PayPal Web Services, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to the PayPal platform based on open standards. PayPal Web Services, currently in beta release, is comprised of four new informational and transactional APIs enabling developers and merchants of all sizes to create ecommerce solutions and applications that integrate with the PayPal platform. This new offering expands PayPal's existing family of Website Payments functionality and reporting features, and includes PayPal's popular Instant Payment Notification (IPN) service.

A "Devices Profile for Web Services" specification from Microsoft defines a minimal set of implementation constraints to enable secure Web service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained endpoints, designed especially for peripherals and consumer electronics hardware. Namespaces are provided for several WS-* specifications including WS-MetadataTransfer (unpublished), WS-Addressing, WS-Discovery, WS-Eventing, and WS-Policy.

The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). Comments are invited on the group's public mailing list. WS-CDL defines peer-to-peer collaboration between Web service participants.

This section shows how to build and deploy a simple Web service and client. A later section, Web Service Clients, provides examples of additional JAX-RPC clients that access the service.

Several files in the JAX-RPC examples depend on the port that you specified when you installed the Web Services Developer Pack. The tutorial examples assume that the server runs on the default port, 8080. If you have changed the port, you must update the port number in the following files before building and running the examples:

The concept of Web Service ( WS ) introduced in 1999 by Hewlett-Packard. Microsoft Coined the actual term "Web Services" in June 2000 as part of the .NET initiative.

This powerpoint presentation is an overview about WebServices. It will explain what Web Services are. What tools can be used to create Web Services and many other informations.

This is a simple Web service that returns the string "Hello, World." You should save it as HelloWorld.asmx in a virtual directory (that is configured to execute scripts).