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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

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 ...

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