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 ...

TheServerSide has published a number of articles on the tenets of effective RESTful web service design, along with examples of how to actually create a cloud-native application using Spring Boot and ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

ASP.NET Core allows you to create Web Services based on gRPC ... which raises two questions: "What is gRPC?" and "Does it ever make sense to use it?" Here are Peter's answers. If you're working with ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Web Service Composition involves the integration of multiple independent services to form a unified, value-added composite service. This approach facilitates the delivery of complex functionalities ...

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 ...