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 ...

This article provides a practical Web service implementation based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI), and Web Services Description ...

The idea of using platform-independent Web services technology to provide access to back-end mainframe applications is picking up speed. Software vendors with experience in the Web services market are ...

David Clarke knows that one of the leading Web services tools is Microsoft's humble, if functional, Notepad. Of course, developers seeking a more sophisticated tool can always move up to Microsoft ...

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and ...

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 ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

To the outsider, information technology is made up of many strange things whose purpose and nature are as elusive as pixie dust. Within IT, Web services has the same shimmering, numinous feel. What it ...