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 are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...

This debate has been ongoing since the concept of Web services was first bandied around four years ago. But if findings from a recent gathering of IT professionals are anything to go by, it's obvious ...

COMMENTARY--Once in a while a new technology comes along those promises to change the way the world does business. Lots of enthusiasm ensues. Some companies adopt the technology and completely alter ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...