(1) A Web service may refer to any capability delivered from a website. Since there are countless applications and services that emanate from the Web, such usage of the term is commonplace in articles ...

Boston One presenter at last week’s XML Web Services One Conference drew a laugh when she told attendees, “Ask five people to define Web services and you’ll get at least six answers.” Even though 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 ...

The communication patterns that Web services support Existing Java specifications The high-level mechanisms for translating between Java methods and SOAP messages The fundamental Web service design ...

The reality: Web services hold much promise, and if you're not already on board, you will be eventually. But security fears are valid and must be addressed from the get-go. Competing standards ...

Web services clearly will play a role in the application integration plans of many IT shops. But how big a role, and when that will happen, is anybody’s guess. Several IT managers attending Gartner ...