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Steve Loughran on Web Services:

Wondrous Curse of Interoperability
October 2002: "This is a presentation on Web Service Interoperability. If the strength of SOAP is that it is platform and language agnostic, its weakness is that there is almost no guarantee that programs written with different SOAP implementations will be able to work with a web service of any complexity. I explore the fundamental reasons why 'Interop' is such an issue, and look at the problems associated with simple datatypes, complex datatypes, exceptions, session management and binary data." Link via Sam Ruby

Web Services that Work
September 2002: "This paper explores the techniques and technology needed to build production-quality web services."

When Web Services Go Bad
March 2002: "The title of this talk is meant to conjure up the vision of some late night cable TV show 'we take you behind the scenes of colocation sites, finding the worst web services in existence', interviewing the people using them, managing them, integrating them, before finally catching up with the developer team on their doorsteps, asking them 'why did you produce such a nightmare?' If such a show existed, would you be on it? I am going to tell you how to avoid that, without getting the government to give you a new identity under the Developer Relocation Program."