Resources

Articles, References and Tutorials

• Free the Service Endpoints- SOA vs. EAI & ESB
  EAI and ESB product vendors claim their solutions are the silver bullet for the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This article claims quite the contrary- EAI and ESB products suppress the service endpoints therefore hindering SOA.
• Open Source Web Services
  Article about open source and Web Services that describes some typical tools like Axis, openSAML and jUDDI.
• Article about the WS-* specifications
  This article describes the different WS-* specifications like WS-Addressing, WS-Eventing, WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Security, WS-Trust etc. Each specification is described within a short paragraph.
• How to Support Web Services in Products
  This article explains how support for Web Services can be incorporated into "out-of-the-box" standard software and into individual software.
• Definition of Web Services
  Yet another definition of Web Services
• Yahoo WebRank and Google PageRank
  Article about Yahoo's new webranking technology and its consequences

Apache Axis

• WSDD Reference
  Online reference describing the elements used in Axis 1.X deployment descriptors
• SOAP Compression
  This extension adds gzip compression to Axis 1.X
• How to Use SOAP Compression with Apache Axis 1.X
  Guide explaining how to use SOAP compression with Apache Axis 1.X using a compression extension and a gzip Servlet filter.

J2EE

• 2Way HTTP Compression Servlet Filter
  Servlet filter that compresses and decompresses both HTTP requests and HTTP responses using gzip

Miscellaneous

• Assorted Links to External Resources
  Bookmarks about Web Services, News Aggregation, and the Semantic Web