Presents your XML AND WEB SERVICES AT BUILDER.COM E-NEWSLETTER for August 18, 2003 <-------------------------------------------> CREATE WEB SERVICE APPS USING COLDFUSION MX ColdFusion MX offers one of the simplest and most efficient platforms for developing applications that consume available Web services. That's why you should add this tool to your Web services bag of tricks. Using ColdFusion MX's off-the-shelf tools can expedite Web services application development, particularly when invoking services made publicly available by a major provider such as Amazon.com. Even if you intend to develop your own Web services, familiarizing yourself with ColdFusion MX's invocation functionality will help you gain perspective on client-side interaction, and perhaps even help you reverse-engineer Web services features for your own systems. In any case, a quick and easy Web services consumption tool can never hurt your development efforts. This article discusses how to create a Web services invocation application using ColdFusion MX and the Amazon.com Web services API. Find out what it takes to get a Web services-consuming application off the ground the easy way with ColdFusion MX. http://ct.com.com/click?q=f6-QkfIQMwckvQNLATr69NDFRC0fp7v Kevin Koch is a senior software engineer with extensive experience in both Microsoft's .NET platform and J2EE technologies. He is a cofounder and president of Task Solutions Inc. ----------------------------------------