An overview about Web Services and Security.

An overview in the XML and Web Services.

An overview about the XML Web Services Architecture.

An overview about the Web Services Stack.

An overview of XML Web Services Standards.

Take a look at this powerpoint presentation about exploring the boundaries of web services in a resource-limited environment.

Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, today announced the roll out of its Sabre Web Services offering. This new offering provides travel agents easier, faster and more flexible access to the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) using industry-accepted OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) standards.

A major grid computing consortium and a cadre of leading technology companies outlined new specifications that will marry the concepts of grid computing and Web services to improve business processes on the Web. But the specs appear to overlap with the work Microsoft, BEA, and others presented earlier this month in their WS-Eventing schema.

555-1212.com provides an XML Web Service that allows you to integrate directory information data into your company's applications.

Web services encompass technologies for deploying and providing access to functionality over the web. Each web service is a self-contained, self-describing modular component that communicates using XML messages.

XKMS defines a Web services interface to a public key infrastructure. This makes it easy for applications to interface with key-related services, like registration and revocation, and location and validation. Most developers will only ever need to worry about implementing XKMS clients.

Epicor Software Corporation, a leading provider of end-to-end, industry specific enterprise software solutions for midmarket companies, today announced the immediate availability of Epicor for Service Enterprises, the first XML Web service enterprise service automation (ESA) solution for mid-sized, project-based businesses.

A draft version of Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing) has been published as a new member of the 'Composable Architecture' (WS-*) Web service specifications. The WS-Eventing specification "describes a protocol that allows Web services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for event notification messages."

Five documents approved as Committee Draft specifications by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC are being submitted for consideration as OASIS standards. The main CDs include "Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.0," "Web Services Security UsernameToken Profile," and "Web Services Security X.509 Certificate Token Profile." The WSS specification describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity and confidentiality.

An Introduction to XML Web Services.

A group of vendors have added another specification to a set of proposed standards for defining complex Web services.

On the surface, it sounded impressive: Sun Microsystems was heading a coalition called the Liberty Alliance Project to thwart Microsoft in the promising consumer Web services market, backed by such diverse powerhouses as AOL Time Warner, United Airlines, General Motors and Visa.

Adoption of Web Services technology promises potentially great benefits, but like most new technology adoption, there are also serious questions about new information security risks.

What are web services? Good question...and one that will generate many different responses. The resource section below offers a variety of definitions.

Ensuring that your XML Web services traffic moves rapidly through your network so that you can transact business is critical, but there is a lot of variability and confusion around what can expedite XML Web services security performance and where potential bottlenecks will occur in your unique architecture.