A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

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 ...

Organizations often are challenged to get the most value out of their service-oriented systems. Whether they are implementing an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution or developing a ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

IBM is shrewdly reinforcing its support for Web service technology and has articulated a vision--"dynamic e-business"--for the ultimate evolution of e-business, with Web services at the core. IBM's ...