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Of all the resources that I have collected on Web Services Enhancements 2.0, I find that there are two pieces that stand out (this is very subjective of course).

First, there is the article that was co-produced by IBM and Microsoft on "Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services: Architecture and Composition", explaining the following:

• The role of composable services and service oriented architectures
• Brief but very good explanation of all the current web service specifications and functions
• And a very detailed description of the joint IBM/Microsoft demonstration scenario that shows how the WS specifications can be used together to create Web services that solve real-world needs, initially presented on September 17, 2003 with good press coverage.

This article can be fond here.

Second, Develop Mentor has created two hands-on-labs on Web Services Enhancements 2.0 for the TechEd 2003. These labs guide you through the creation of sample applications that use WSE 2.0 Tech Preview and are especially suitable for people that have not worked with WSE before. In  my opinion, these labs are more useful for understanding WSE than the code samples that are shipped with the WSE 2.0 Tech Preview.

The Hand-On-Labs can be found here.

Of course, there are other, great articles on WSE 2.0 on MSDN's Web Service section and the WSE 2.0 Tech Preview SDK can be downloaded from MSDN as well. And there is also my introductionary web-cast on the subject and the two MSDN-TV episodes on Hard Core Messaging with WSE 2.0, (Part 1 and Part 2) by Keith Ballinger.

Modular protocol architecture for interoperable Web Services.