An Introduction to Web Services: Tracy Gardner, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM UK Laboratories (Hursley) introduces web services, self-describing applications that can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.
Web Services Acronyms, Demystified by Pavel Kulchenko
Introduction to Web Services by Vivek Devarajan
Introduction to Web Services by Lakshmi Ananthamurthy
An Introduction to Web Services: What they are, why they are important, and how to get started: This white paper looks at the topic from a business perspective, and seeks to explain why, when and how senior management should develop and execute a strategy to exploit Web services.
Introduction to Web Services by Hartwig Gunzer, Sales Engineer, Borland.
An Introduction to Web Services by Christopher A. Brooks, University of Saskatchewan. This paper introduces web services and the specifications that deal with them, and provides an initial report on how web services are being used within the I-Help project.
An Introduction to Web Services and related Technology for building an e-Science Grid: This paper provides a tutorial-type overview of Web and Grid Services.