The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

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 ...

As a consequence, real-world Web service deployments can get messy and require a serious development effort. Getting the job done requires development tools, a cluster of run-time servers ...

Those corporate heavyweights are experimenting with Web services, an emerging approach to application development that promises to save time and money by changing the way companies build and use ...

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 ...

Web services is an umbrella term for a set of XML-based standards and programming techniques that make it simpler to share information between applications. Once touted as a boon to consumers ...

Through WSE, Web services can be signed and encrypted using ... WSE 3.0 also has aligned the declarative policy model with the imperative programming model so that policies are always used to ...

BEA WebLogic Workshops visual programming model, XML-based parameter lists and from-the-ground-up Web services integration make it extremely easy to write sophisticated Web service-based ...

Despite the hint of fractures already appearing in this emerging framework as rivals craft uninteroperable versions, many believe the Web-services idea holds promise as a means to at least do a quick ...

McCormick IT provides web application development services to the McCormick community. Web applications accept input from users via web forms and report on or automate the tabulation and distribution ...