Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments — that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems — that is not a likely ...

The Web service features in J2EE 1.4 address both the server and client sides of Web services. The features extend J2EE to allow existing server-side enterprise Java components to become Web services ...

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 ...

Developers designing network-centered computing and control products must cope with a wide range of implementation issues inside the box, a bewildering array of connectivity issues outside of it and a ...

The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security ...

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Four in 10 Web services developers feel that Web services either "absolutely" or "probably" diminish the need for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), according to Evans Data Corporation's new ...

Web service1.A Web service is a software system identified by a URI [RFC 2396], whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other ...

If small start-ups want inspiration to take on industry giants in Web services, they need only look to BEA Systems. BEA began doing business at the height of the PC revolution in 1995, when the ...

Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...

The hype surrounding Web service technologies continues to swell, with acronyms like XML, UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP becoming commonplace. Both Microsoft and Sun have recast their direction to embrace Web ...