By Rich Salz
In his latest column, Rich Salz puts his money where his mouth is by showing how to use his style of WSDL and XML schema to build the client side of a geolocation web service. 05/18/2005

By Micah Dubinko
In this week's XML-Deviant column, Micah Dubinko reminds us that even playful messages to the XML-DEV mailing list have a serious footing. 04/13/2005

By Rich Salz
Rich Salz shows us how to create WSDL descriptions of web services simply and easily, using rather a lot of boilerplate. 03/30/2005

By Rich Salz
Rich Salz explains how and why the web services stack is ready now, and why we should leave good enough alone. 01/12/2005

By Rich Salz
Rich Salz returns to XML.com, after a long absence, to explain why WSDL 2 is so flawed. 11/17/2004

By Edd Dumbill
A recent article by Mark Nottingham suggests that RDF may well be the answer to the difficulties inherent in specifying web services with W3C XML Schema. Edd Dumbill reports. 08/11/2004

By Hao He
Hao He offers guidelines and best practices for implementing REST web services. 08/11/2004

By Itamar Shtull-Trauring
The syntaxes used in protocols should be simple and consistent, says Itamar Shtull-Trauring. He examines the good, the bad, and the ugly. 04/21/2004

By Andy Oram
In the second and final part of Andy Oram's series he explains how web service researchers might learn valuable lessons from the P2P movement. 04/14/2004

By Andy Oram
Andy Oram presents a two-part series examining the utility of P2P technology in the Web Services space. 04/07/2004

By Edd 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

By Jon Udell
In this write-up of his keynote address to the XML 2003 conference, Jon Udell explains that the key thing about XML is the way anXML document can become a shared construct, a tangible thing that processes and people can pass around and interact with. 12/23/2003

By Steve 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

By Kendall Grant Clark
In the first of his reports from the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the path forward for successfully selling and developing Semantic Web technology into industry. 10/22/2003

By Rich Salz
In his newest column, Rich Salz outlines a proposal for an interface definition language, called RSWS, that's simpler than WSDL and tuned for document-style services. 10/14/2003

By Ivelin Ivanov
Though not yet a W3C Recommendation, XQuery has been around for a long time now. This article looks at the trends in its deployment, and predicts the big opportunity for XQuery in web services integration. 10/01/2003

By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Grant Clark discusses BPEL4WS, DAML-S, WS-Choreography, and the likelihood that BPEL4WS will be the only high-level way of describing composite web services.  07/08/2003

By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark digs into the latest draft of the W3C's Web Services Architecture document, finding both curious anomaly and commendable progress. 06/18/2003

By Kendall Grant Clark
An introduction to the W3C's Web Services Architecture Working Group, and its role in defining a coherent architecture for the currently chaotic ecology of web services specifications. 05/28/2003

By Edd Dumbill
WebServices.XML.com is a new sister site to XML.com, which will cover topics related to web services and Internet-wide computing. Managing Editor Edd Dumbill provides an introduction to the new site, and guidelines for potential authors. 03/04/2003

By Rich Salz
Rich Salz introduces the Web Services Interoperability Organization, and its Basic Profile, in his first column for the new WebServices.XML.com site. 03/04/2003

This white paper discusses the architectural issues encountered when using opaque non-XML data in XML applications, including (but not limited to) Web services and SOAP. 02/26/2003

By Edd Dumbill
To celebrate five years of XML, Edd Dumbill interviews a selection of XML old-timers and experts about their experiences of XML and hopes for the future. 02/12/2003

By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark examines recent debate as to whether the "web services stack" is a thing of fact or fiction, and also muses on the latest news in relation to web services patents. 02/12/2003

By Rich Salz
In his latest Endpoints column Rich Salz opines about the differences between XML specifications based on XML and those based on the XML infoset. 11/20/2002

By Timothy Appnel
Timothy Appnel says we must improve the effectiveness of RSS feeds. He offers recommendations for authoring more useful and effective feeds with an approach that is neutral, practical, and conservative. 11/19/2002

By Edd Dumbill
With the technology press taking a more measured view of web services, does this mean the party's over? Edd Dumbill argues that the future of web services and XML are closely linked, and that the fun's only just beginning 10/23/2002

By Rich Salz
In this month's Endpoints column, Rich Salz discusses the issue of transporting binary data in XML messaging, using the Soap with Attachments technique. 08/28/2002

By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark reports on best practices for web application design as discussed on the REST mailing list. 07/10/2002

By Rael Dornfest, Mike Loukides
WebLogic Workshop is the cornerstone of BEA's Web services strategy. We talk to BEA VP of enginnering Adam Bosworth about this product, Web services, and .NET. 05/10/2002

By Paul Prescod
Paul Prescod explains why moving its API to use SOAP was a backward step for the popular search engine, and argues for a return to a pure HTTP and XML interface. 04/24/2002

By Edd Dumbill
Web services are a distraction from the true business of developing the Web, argues Edd Dumbill, and the W3C should stop wasting resources on their development. 04/24/2002

By Richard Koman
Web Services represent not just a new way to build Internet applications, says Clay Shirky in this interview, but the second stage of peer-to-peer, in which distinctions between clients and servers are all but eliminated. 04/23/2002

By Paul Prescod
Following on from his "Next Generation Web Services" article, Paul Prescod shows how the REST model for web services meets real world demands such as security, auditing and orchestration. 02/20/2002

By Leigh Dodds
The XML-Deviant reports on the recent discussions about kinds of messaging patterns, as well as industry efforts to certify web services interoperability. 02/13/2002

By Andy Oram
New, networked file systems, scripting languages for devices, extensions to the seven-layer ISO networking model, and a new class of criminal offenses are all possible trends of the next few years. 02/12/2002

By Edd Dumbill
Commentary on the W3C's launch of a Web Services Activity, along with the usual sideways look at the world of XML. 01/30/2002

By Madeline Schnapp
O'Reilly's Research Department compared sales of our tech books at Amazon.com against the NASDAQ. The close correlation suggests that tech book sales, like the stock market indices, may be a leading economic indicator.  11/16/2001

By Clay Shirky
The web services hype machine promises us a "revolution" bringing another "paradigm-shift." Clay Shirky explores if, despite the overselling, there may just be something there -- or maybe not. 10/03/2001

By Edd Dumbill
In the first installment of his new XML.com column, Edd Dumbill takes a look at the latest incarnation of SOAP, and the ever-changing XML conference scene. 07/18/2001

By Don Box
An insider's view of the last three years of SOAP's development, its relationship with W3C XML Schema, and an assessment of where XML protocols should go next. 04/04/2001

By Edd Dumbill
A report from XML DevCon Europe, London. On the first day of the conference, Henry Thompson spoke on XML Schemas and the XML Infoset, and David Orchard gave an overview of the world of web services. 02/21/2001

By Leigh Dodds
Jon Bosak's comments at XML 2000 about the respective roles of ebXML and SOAP have sparked discussion on convergence between ebXML's transport, routing and packaging layer and the W3C's XML Protocol Activity. 12/20/2000

By Edd Dumbill, Simon St. Laurent
Collected coverage from XML.com of the XML DevCon Fall 2000 conference, held November in San Jose. 11/22/2000

By Edd Dumbill
Delivering a talk entitled "Web Services: Requirements, Challenges and Opportunities," Greg Hope laid down the future of web business as Microsoft sees it, and especially the role of XML technologies. 11/14/2000

By Edd Dumbill
In his closing keynote speech at XML Europe 2000, Edd Dumbill surveyed the state of XML, covering its past, its present, and its future in distributing data and applications around the Internet. 06/16/2000

By Victor Votsch
Things have been busy in April for the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) consortium led by Vignette. 04/22/1998

By Victor Votsch
Syndicating content on the Web should become much easier from a production standpoint as a result of a new consortium of vendors and publishers. 03/10/1998