ByEdd Dumbill
Amazon.com's web services API has met with broad success. Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, speaks to Edd Dumbill. 03/31/2004

ByJoe Gregorio
The grassroots technology for weblog authoring, Atom, is undergoing rapid development. This article reviews the eighth revision of the specification for the Atom API. 02/03/2004

ByEdd Dumbill
Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, presented Tuesday at XML 2003, explaining the decisions involved in making Amazon's puiblic web services strategy a success. 12/09/2003

BySteve Loughran
VeriSign's recently Site Finder service, now temporarily suspended, caused many problems for internet users and web applications. Particularly at risk from the Site Finder changes are web services applications. This article examines the difficulties caused by Site Finder, and what users and developers of web services can do about it. 10/28/2003

ByHao He
Service-Oriented Architecture underpins most modern web services. It aims to achieve loose coupling between interacting software agents in order to preserve the benefits of reusability, extensibility and simplicity. 09/30/2003

ByMark Pilgrim
In this month's Dive Into XML column, Mark Pilgrim takes a look at Microsoft's new Microsoft.com web service, suggesting that it might be improved by becoming more like the Web itself. 09/24/2003

ByWill Provost
The buzzword "interoperability" has grown to encompass a broad range of problems and is no longer a precise term. This article challenges several apparent interoperability problems in web services, many of which are really solved problems from other domains. 09/02/2003

ByNasseam Elkarra
Planning to deploy information services on mobile phones? This article gives an overview of the various technologies and routes available for mobile web service development. 08/19/2003

ByJeff McHugh
Using web services on low resource J2ME devices is possible through Enhydra.org's KSOAP classes. This article shows you how to create lightweight web service clients and servers. 08/19/2003

ByWill Provost
How can web services development be given a proper design process? Enter the Unified Modeling Language, or UML, which is the whiteboard notation for object-oriented analysis and design, and offers a natural fit to RPC-style service design. 08/05/2003

BySergey Beryozkin
Saving state in web services interactions is an important capability. This article reviews the various approaches to maintaining sessions in web services. 07/22/2003

ByJohan Peeters
In the second part of his hands-on WSDL series, Johan Peeters clarifies good practice for writing WSDL, and also finds that WSDL itself is not yet mature enough. 06/24/2003

ByErik Benson
By consuming information from multiple web services and then exposing newly processed information in our own web services, we can begin to build complex applications with very few resources required up front. Erik Benson describes the workings of All Consuming. 05/27/2003

ByFaheem Khan
In the second installment of our series on web service transactions, Faheem Khan examines in detail the operation of atomic transactions in an example enterprise application scenario, using the WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction specifications. 04/29/2003

ByIvelin Ivanov
Ivelin Ivanov shows how simple it is to syndicate functionality between web sites when using Apache Cocoon. 04/29/2003

ByJon Udell
One of XML's promises is fine-grained, specific searching, but this doesn't come without a lot of effort in data preparation. Jon Udell looks for the sweet spot that marries spontaneity and structure. 04/15/2003

ByPaul Madsen
As parts of our lives are increasingly managed via online applications, the resulting morass of different logon and profile information is becoming unmanageable. This is the problem the Liberty Alliance project sets out to solve. 04/01/2003

ByBrian Buehling
Brian Buehling presents questions to ask yourself before commencing the planning and implementation of a web services strategy in your organization. 03/04/2003

ByJon Udell
Jon Udell puts together web services, XML, and Amazon to enhance Spring, a "concept-centric" visual organizer for Mac OS X. 03/04/2003

ByIvelin Ivanov
Server side business logic is often invariant with respect to the client device. Ivelin Ivanov shows how the Cocoon XMLForm framework addresses the concern of separating the purpose from the presentation of a form, maximizing its reusability for a variety of client devices.  01/29/2003

ByEthan Cerami
Ethan Cerami explores two bioinformatic Web Services you can try out today -- XEMBL and BQS -- and shows code examples of how the interfaces work.  05/14/2002

ByBrian Jepson
Brian McConnell proposes an open source, peer-to-peer system for making connections among online dictionaries via a SOAP interface.  05/10/2002

ByRichard Koman
Brewster Kahle tells how he archives and indexes 100 terabytes of data with 400 PCs. 01/21/2002

ByDidier Martin
Our intrepid explorer of specifications, Didier Martin, investigates CC/PP, an RDF application for describing and exchanging device capabilities. 01/31/2001