Web services articles in ACM Communications

Hi all,

My apologies to those of you for whom Web Services technology and standards 
is old hat.  But the June issue of the Communications of the ACM is devoted 
to Web Services.  For me, some of the overview articles describing the 
relationship among the various evolving technologies and standards are very 
useful.  The alphabet soup is still there, but there are some helpful 
architectural diagrams and succint descriptions of the components and their 
state of evolution.  Many of the later articles are on business/marketing 
applications, but even some of that is interesting from the point of view 
that this is not simply an academic exercise -- for better or for worse.

I thought you might be interested.  I think there is a way to get at one 
free issue of the CACM on a trial basis online, but I can't figure out how 
to get at this one.  It may be too soon.

--Ben
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