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 Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...

Is Microsoft’s .Net a better alternative to J2EE for creating Web services? Join the online discussion in the Computerworld forums. The cornerstones of Web services include the Universal Description, ...

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 ...

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 ...