This article appeared in Web Services Journal on October 23.
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46718
J2EE based Web Services does have bright future due to broad range of J2EE applications which allows us to expose our existing applications as Web Services and some of those tools does work at a minimal complexity level. Glad that author pointed out importance of security, reliability, and performance of Web Services, without which there is no future for Web Services.