Web services promise a brave new world of easy software integration using XML and the Web. Because they’re based on XML, Web services have the potential to serve as platform-independent glue between ...

Web services aren’t a technology unto themselves, but rather a new programming model that simply makes use of a few common technology specifications. The basic building blocks of a Web service are ...

The next version of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition will fully support guidelines being promoted by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to ensure that applications will work with one ...

"Microsoft actually supports what people are calling 'Web services' - SOAP, xML, etc. - better than Java," says Randy Starr, Countermind's director of mobile and wireless solutions practice.

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...