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We recommend the following articles:

1. Understanding Web services
   Suitable for both novices and experts, this technical overview by IBM Web services architect Arthur Ryman brings you up to date on the current status of Web services. This article explains how the Web has evolved from a document Web into a transaction-based application Web, and is now starting the transition to a service Web. The service Web offers run-time integration of application components from different providers, and is based on new standards and protocols such as SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. This article gives you the details on this new generation of Web applications through practical scenarios and code samples, and includes information on WebSphere Studio support for Web services.



2. Integrating apps with Web services
   You will learn how to wrap an existing application as a Web service and announce it using a UDDI directory and to discover and use Web services within your applications. The tutorial also explains how to deploy your application to a WebSphere Application Server.
   


3. Web Services Development and Deployment with WebSphere V5 Tools and Technologies
   This series of articles describes how to use WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.0 (hereafter called Application Developer) to develop and test Web services and Web applications, how to deploy the Web services on WebSphere Application Server 5.0, and how to publish and find Web services in the IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry.
   1. Part 1: Creating a Web service
      This article will demonstrate how to use Application Developer to create and test a Web service.
   
   
   2. Part 2: UDDI
      This article will demonstrate how to use Application Developer to publish and find the Web service in a UDDI Registry, import Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files, and create a client for the published Web service.
   
   
   3. Part 3: Struts
      This article will demonstrate how to use Application Developer to create and test a Web application that uses the Web service.
   
   
   4. Part 4: Deploying a Web Service
      This article will demonstrate how to deploy the Web service into WebSphere Application Server 5.0 and access the deployed Web service from a Web application running in Application Developer.