The online retailer has added a new service for users: a low-cost virtual closet where people can put in and take out their data online, and pay for just what they store and transfer.

Google’s SafeSearch proved to be less than safe when used with Google Base, but the glitch that caused some unsavory results to appear in searches has been fixed.

As we’ve discussed in the previous installments of this article series, Web services are comprised of a number of core standards, including:

Starting in April 2002, I began a long-running article series titled, An Extensive Examination of the DataGrid.

Some commercial Web services software provides sophisticated Web services accounting features, recording details of Web services transactions recognized on the wire. But sometimes developers need accounting that is more modular, much more basic, and available on a shoestring. This article explains how to use advanced function composition tasks to add basic Web services monitoring capabilities.

Unless the message exchanges of Web services are made reliable, organizations will not be able to trust them for deployment in industrial-strength business. In this paper, Prasad Yendluri, Principal Architect at webMethods, explains why there is a need for a reliable messaging solution that is independent of the underlying transport protocol used to transmit the messages, and gives an analysis of emerging Web services reliable messaging standards and the work done in this space previously by RosettaNet, BizTalk, and ebXML that forms the basis for the advancements in the Web services domain.

The World Wide Web Consortium has released Version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as a formal standard.

One of the most common categories of questions on the SOAP::Lite mailing list is how to get Perl SOAP applications to work with .NET services. It’s not that Perl and SOAP::Lite are not suited to the job, but rather that there are easy traps to fall into. Add to that the fact that .NET has its own distinct philosophy toward applications, and the confusion is understandable. This article will cover some of the most common traps and considerations that trip up Perl developers.