Advisor:
General information site, which includes good articles on Web Services.

Techmetrix:
A general information site with a few articles pertaining to Web Services and SOAP.

W3C Workshop:
A list of industry position papers from various insiders, taken from the W3C Workshop on Web Services in San Jose (11-12 April, 2001).

Cfoinfo:
The site focuses on the world of Web Services from a business perspective, providing news and resources for business managers who need to understand, find or evaluate Web Services for use in their business.

Iona TechZone:
Iona has set aside a section of its site dedicated jointly to XML and Web Services, includes featured news items, whitepapers, articles, and links.

CapeScience:
CapeScience provides news, tutorials and technology related to Web Services. The site is hosted and maintained by Cape Clear Software, providers of Web Services technology.

CBDi Forum:
Large list of articles and recent news items related almost exclusively to Web Services. The article abstracts can be read free of charge, but a subscription fee is required in order to read the full content.

DevXpert:
The site includes a short list of free Web Services related articles.

The Stencil Group:
An offshoot of the main Stencil Group site, a research project aimed at exploring the Web Services area. This embryonic site includes only a few articles at the moment but more will follow shortly.

The Ecademy:
Copious resources and information for the E-Business community.

SOAPrpc.com:
A resource site for SOAP, .NET, UDDI, Sun ONE, HP Netaction and related protocols for building Web Services.

SearchWebManagement:
This TechTarget site provides technical managers with the critical information they need on Web servers and Web security. With free registration, users can access the latest news, tips, discussion forums and advice on administering Web servers and keeping their sites secure.

SearchWebServices.com:
Another TechTarget site, this free resource for IT professionals provides unbiased Web services news updated daily and resources such as white papers, tutorials, search engine and live events with industry experts.

VAWSS.org:
Value Added Web Services Suppliers has been formed with the intention of helping developers, consumers and analysts to understand more about what makes a commercial Web Service a good prospect.

XML Web Services Security Forum:
The XML Web Services Security Forum (XWSS.org) is a resource, newsgroup and newsletter dedicated to security issues related to XML Web Services.

Webservile.com:
Leaders in Web Services satire.

Background

UDDI.org:
The UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) resource site, for all your UDDI information needs, includes PDF whitepaper downloads.

ebXML.org
ebXML.org, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, provides information and resources to enable enterprises of any size, in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet.

XML.org:
XML.org is a centralized portal and a valuable and leading resource to technologists, developers and business people developing purpose-built XML languages. It provides public access to XML information and XML Schemas.

XML.com:
O’Reilly’s XML.com features fast-breaking news, tutorials, in-depth analysis and solid reference works for XML developers. It introduces you to the latest XML tools and demonstrates XML techniques using languages such as Perl, Java and Python.

XML.com Resource Guide:
The XML.com Resource Guide contains over 1,500 listings in more than 150 different XML-related categories. Both technical and business-oriented topics are covered, with a special emphasis on tutorials and open source software.

Top XML:
Top XML is a three-year old XML community where developers can contribute content, share source code and learn. Top XML provides over 15,000 pages of XML content and well over 100 free XML downloads.

Top XML SOAP:
A SOAP focussed section to Top XML.

VBWS:
VBWS is dedicated to providing Web Services resources for VB developers. Yasser Shohoud founded VBWS as a community for VB developers building and using Web Services.

Hailstorm:
The Microsoft site brings us the official announcement from Bill Gates about the next element of his .NET strategy, Hailstorm.

Developmentor:
A more technical orientated page on Developmentor's site about SOAP, includes useful article information and an FAQ section.

Sun One:
Sun Microsystems have a small subsection of their site geared towards Web Services, with a little bit of general information and a lot of interesting vendor specific information.

Soap Client:
A useful resource site covering a wide range of topics which have importance in the world of Web Services, but concentrating on SOAP.

Soap Lite:
SOAP resource page with useful links, but targeted towards programmers and developers.

C# Station:
C# Station provides information, links, and other resources for programming in C#.

Directories and Search Engines

SalCentral:
The world's largest brokerage for schemas, reviews and quality assurance information on Web Services.Provides a Web Services search engine.

Xmethods:
Xmethods is a site dedicated to promoting the development, deployment, and use of Web Services, offers (amongst other things) a directory of Web Services and a discussion forum.

XMLBus.com:
In the words of the company themselves, XMLBus.com is "a resource for people who are interested in Web Services and want to learn more about Web Services technology. XMLBus.com provides online tools to Browse UDDI and to dynamically test Web Services running on XMLBus.com or elsewhere on the Internet".

Microsoft UDDI:
Microsoft's UDDI directory, with information about UDDI (and registering for UDDI).

Vendors and Consultancies

Primordial:
A specialist Web Services consultancy that designs, develops and deploys Web Services applications. Primordial focuses on integrating its clients' business processes with those of their cutomers and partners, helping them to rationalize costs and to expand markets.

The Mind Electric:
The Mind Electic are the manufacturers of GLUE, a new platform "that simplifies and unifies traditional distributed computing with the emerging world of Web Services".

Systinet:
Formerly Idoox, Systinet develops and sells Web Services infrastructure software, that alleviates creating, publishing and discovering of Web Services.

Vivaserve:
Develops Web Services software. Features a product to make existing applications available as Web Services, without needing to modify the applications' data formats.

Flamenco Networks:
Flamenco Networks produce a Web Services network toolkit, which makes implementing high quality Web Services easier and quicker.

Allesta:
Allesta Web Service Agency is an open service platform that enables companies to build and manage Web Services. The Allesta solution provides a shared infrastructure designed to ease and accelerate the life-cycle management of Web Services.

MEC Technologies:
MEC Technologies, the leader in Secure Web Infrastructure Services is a systems integrator which pioneered solutions in web-based applications, web services, and X-Internet application development. "We are ready to assist you in getting the most out of your Web Services and X-Internet Application deployments."

Cypresslogic:
Cypresslogic offers a Web service development tool that supports both .NET and J2EE Web services. ObjectView allows organizations to quickly access and integrate Web services into its unique drag and drop environment. Web services are represented as graphical objects, which are used like building blocks to create complex applications.

UDICo:
Universal Data Interface Corp. offer a Web Services platform that has no dependencies, is easy to use in any curly brace language, is affordable, and is portable across Windows and Unix with no need to compile.

Acumen:
Acumen specializes in Web Services solutions for companies doing business using Internet technologies. Their Acumen UDDI product is licensed by BEA for inclusion in WebLogic Server 7.0.

PolarLake:
develops products that solve the problems faced by organizations migrating to XML and Web Services based architectures for deployment within and between enterprises.

Westbridge Technology:
Westbridge Technology provides centralized security, reliability, management, audit and interoperability solutions for XML Web Services networks.

Infravio:
Infravio's comprehensive software platform uses an XML-based management model to speed development, simplify management and provide reliable execution of Web Services.

WestGlobal:
WestGlobal develops and sells a complete Web Services Management Solution with modules for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Service Level Agreements (SLA), Billing and Rating, Delivery Prioritization, Security (Authorization), Versioning, and Dynamic Routing.

AmberPoint:
AmberPoint aims to deliver solutions for making XML Web applications production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable.

Whitepapers

WSDL:
An informative whitepaper on Web Services Description Language (WSDL), coming courtesy of W3C.

interKeel:
interKeel's whitepaper on challenges involved in developing Web Services-based e-Business applications.