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grid + WS + SW

IBM drives Grid Computing with Web Services and announces ten new Grids [WebServices.Org]

Big players will try to converge grids, web services and Semantic Web.

WS + grids: IBM's new annoucement above.
grids + SW: http://notes.antville.org/stories/226936/
SW + WS: http://notes.antville.org/stories/217165/

WSIF 2.0 - better WSDL?

Apache WSIF (Web Services Invocation Framework) 2.0 released. Apache has released Apache WSIF 2.0, the "Web Services Invocation Framework". WSIF is a simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or where the services are provided. WSIF is closely based upon WSDL, so it can invoke any service that can be described in WSDL. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Just another data point: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2003Jan/0178.html

WSIF is a definitely something to learn about. It has an interesting implication in architecture of services.