The ability to mimic service behavior even before they are implemented - mocking - enables service consumer developers and testers to parallelize their efforts without having to wait for service implementation to complete. Service simulation also provides a light-weight alternative to building expensive reference environments.

A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock Web services for the purpose of development and testing.

In this article, Dushshantha Chandradasa explains automated testing of a WSO2 WSF/PHP Web service using phpt.

Cesare Pautasso, Olaf Zimmermann and Frank Leymann presented a paper at the WWW 2008 conference held in Beijing, detailing a comparison of "RESTful Web Services vs. Big Web Services".

CERT is a volunteer workforce of security professionals from the open source community with the goal of providing security vulnerability mediation and incident response services to open source projects.

Paul Fremantle explains the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and how to use Apache Synapse, an open source enterprise service bus that will help your organization work more efficiently.

This article by Lahiru Gunathilake illustrates the latest performance results of Apache Axis2/C and compares with the performance of Axis2/C with Guththila XML parser and libxml2 XML parser.

This introductory screen cast tutorial by Nandika Jayawardana shows how to install WSF/PHP with php5 and IIS