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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Web services enable us to build distributed systems where application components on a network can be accessed in a platform-neutral, language-agnostic, and implementation-independent way. It doesn’t ...