Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

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 ...

At the conclusion of his J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) Web services presentation at last year’s JavaOne, IBM architect Jim Knutson remarked that “every Web service needs a place to be a ...

COMMENTARY--The prevailing wisdom holds that enterprises currently working on Web services will be in an excellent position to realize benefits such as cost savings, productivity enhancements and new ...

The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security ...

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Developers designing network-centered computing and control products must cope with a wide range of implementation issues inside the box, a bewildering array of connectivity issues outside of it and a ...

Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...

If small start-ups want inspiration to take on industry giants in Web services, they need only look to BEA Systems. BEA began doing business at the height of the PC revolution in 1995, when the ...