Simple text messages, readable and writable by people and computers, live at the core of every successful Internet application. XML seeks to grow the expressive power of these texts while preserving ...

Sun Microsystems has launched new software tools to bolster its Web services strategy. Sun executives said Friday that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development ...

Now that Web services have firmly established themselves in the enterprise, developers face mounting pressure to keep up with the latest development and deployment technologies — sometimes even before ...

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Sun Microsystems has released a preliminary version of an update to its Java 2 Enterprise Edition software, with support for a major new Web services standard. Sun announced late Thursday that a ...

The Web's leading standards group has updated its core draft specification for Web services. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a ...

Sun Microsystems is set to further define its vision for Web services as it vies with rival Microsoft for control over the future of business computing on the Internet. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Web services may be all the rage these days, but users, developers, and even vendors are only nibbling at the edges of what this still-unfolding shift in software architecture and delivery means to ...

Testing Web services is a tricky task because of the currently limited choice of tools. In an effort to fill the gap the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an open industry effort set ...

Cities and states tap a new IP-centric approach to data sharing. In Chicago, a major hurdle has been convincing agencies that the upfront investment will be worth the savings Web services will ...