A Microsoft- and IBM-backed group that promotes the use of UDDI for finding Web services across a network says members will start distributing test copies of the latest version.

Web services protocols use XML to make it easier to share data between applications. The goal of the WS-Security specification is to improve interoperability between different security systems ...

A Web services security specification, introduced this week by IBM and Microsoft, could emerge as a rival to the existing Sun Microsystems-backed Liberty Alliance Project. A group of major players ...