Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

Web services combine the best aspects of component-based development with the Web’s ubiquity and easy access. Think of Web services as black-box functionality you can reuse without worrying about how ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

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Tooling for Web Services As Web services emerge as the next tour de force in software development, Builder.com had a conversation with iPlanet CTO Hal Stern on the tools that will be available from ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

The reality: Web services hold much promise, and if you're not already on board, you will be eventually. But security fears are valid and must be addressed from the get-go. Competing standards ...

Web services relies on software standards. Here is a brief description of what each of the four major Web services standards does. SOAP (simple object access protocol) Describes how one application ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

As the computer industry increasingly focuses on Web services, the Web's premier standards body is weathering vociferous criticism from members and analysts alike that it is dropping the ball on this ...