The Web Services Enhancements, or WSE, is an add-on to the .NET Framework to enhance Web service features by providing an API for many emerging Web service standards. From the Microsoft WSE Homepage:

A small, collection of FAQs on the Amazon Web Services.

PolarLake Ltd. of Dublin in mid-June released three tools designed to make it easier to integrate XML and Web services with existing systems and infrastructure: JIntegrator Universal Service Bus, Database Integrator and Messaging Integrator.

Mindreef, Inc. announced today the availability of Mindreef SOAPscope 3.0, the first Web Services Diagnostics System to include lifecycle interoperability testing and troubleshooting throughout the development, deployment and support of a Web service.

Compuware this week unveiled OptimalJ 3.1, a model-driven Java development tool featuring support for the Web Services-Security specification as well as integration with application servers, modeling tools, and messaging middleware.

In Part 1 of this article series, we covered how to integrate Amazon Web Services with Notes/Domino 6. We're sure a lot of readers would like to know how a similar application is created with J2EE because IBM has focused many of its efforts on that technology.

They release version 3.0 of the Amazon Web Services SDK, and announce an improved Web site for developers (www.amazon.com/webservices), plus the enrollment of more than 25,000 developers in the program. "We are very pleased with the progress of Amazon Web Services since it launched just ten months ago," said Jason Kilar, Amazon.com Vice President of Worldwide Software Applications.

The following are answers to questions that have been raised concerning the WS-Resource Framework (WSRF), its design, and its implementation.

The LiveTime Web Services Gateway will enable organizations to integrate LiveTime Support 3.0 with in-house applications, extending its capabilities within an enterprise and streamlining the support process.

Mobile devices are becoming essential to the way companies run their businesses. Enterprise customers want more flexible interaction and functionality among applications, and the ability to leverage existing development resources. Web Services provide an architectural foundation that allows for easy integration across the enterprise and beyond.

WSTK 3.1 now has support for SOAP Security Token and the Digital Signature and more.

IBM alphaWorks has released a WSXL SDK which enables presentation-level application integration using Web Services. The WSXL SDK "supports a subset of IBM's Web Services Experience Language (WSXL), which has been submitted to the OASIS Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) Technical Committee.

Long-time Amazon.com users will remember the "Eyes" service, which let you set up a keyword list of products that you were interested in. When new products arrived that match terms in your keyword list, you were sent an email notification with links to the new products along with descriptions that you could include on your Web site, which was useful if you were an Amazon Affiliate.

A small, collection of FAQs on Business Explorer for Web Services.

The IBM alphaWorks Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices "provides tools and run-time environments that allow development of applications that use Web Services on small mobile devices.

The XML development team at IBM alphaWorks has released a 'Web Services Invocation Framework' described as "a tool that provides a standard API for invoking services described in Web Services Description Language (WSDL), no matter how or where the services are provided.

A small, collection of FAQs on Web Services Management Framework - Version 2.0 - .

A small, collection of FAQs on Web Services for DB2 Cube Views.

OASIS members have formed a new Framework for Web Services Implementation (FWSI) Technical Committee to produce guidelines that assist system integrators and software vendors in implementing Web Services solutions.

The MyST Web Services Platform serves as the foundation for MySmartChannels and other applications that require content agility. These are some of the questions that we are asked about concerning this new and innovative content platform.