Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

With the popularity of WebServices technology and the increase trend of developing Service-Oriented Architecture(SOA) software, there is a need for an implementation methodology for WebServices. This ...

The Web’s leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo. The architecture ...

Faced with demand to develop more sophisticated Web services, a new working group — formed within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — is set to tackle key standards challenges, including reliable ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...

This is a no-nonsense guide to web services technologies including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and the JAX APIs; it provides an unbiased look at many of the practical considerations for implementing web services ...

I’d like to briefly expose a few prevalent Web services notions that may be slowing the adoption of Web services and SOA. This will be a multipart series, so let’s begin Part 1. What is a Web services ...

To extract value from these technologies, it will be necessary to make hard business decisions about the way they are used instead of merely treating them as just another new software tool–for their ...

Microservices-based approaches solve application deployment problems that have plagued software development for years. Unfortunately, as computer scientist Jerry Weinberg once pointed out, roughly ...

Key Takeaways With the popularity of Web Services technology and the increase trend of developing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software, there is a need for an implementation methodology for ...