SoapRPC.com is a resource site for SOAP, .NET, UDDI, Sun ONE, HP Netaction and related protocols for building Web Services. We are one of the oldest Web Service resource sites (since June 2000) and we have listings of technical articles, protocol specification, software, tutorials, sample code and a lot more.

WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and standards organizations to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web services solutions.

This is the repository for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) technical reference information. Visit this site often for additions and updates to these technical materials. Read this information to understand the standard, and how to use the architecture to build your infrastructure to promote and find Internet-based products and services.

A beginner's guide to developing Web services and Web applications on the Java Web Services Developer Pack.

• Introduction (Preface - Introduction to XML - Introduction to Web Services - Getting Started with Tomcat)
• Java XML Technology (Java API for XML Processing - Java API for XML Registries - Simple API for XML - Registry Server - Document Object Model - Java API for XML Messaging - XML Stylesheet Language for Transformations - Java API for XML-based RPC)
• Web Technology (Web Applications - Custom Tags in JSP Pages - Java Servlet Technology - JSP Standard Tag Library - JavaServer Pages Technology - Web Application Security - JavaBeans Components in JSP Pages)
• Appendixes (The xrpcc Tool - HTTP Overview - Java Encoding Schemes - API)

The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services.

The goal of the Web Services Activity is to develop a set of technologies in order to bring Web services to their full potential. The Web Services Activity Statement explains the W3C's work on this topic in more detail.