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 ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Interoperability is one of the main promises of Web services. Web services are designed to be independent of the underlying operating system and programming language. In this article we will introduce ...

The hype surrounding Web service technologies continues to swell, with acronyms like XML, UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP becoming commonplace. Both Microsoft and Sun have recast their direction to embrace Web ...

One of the biggest problems with Web services, said David Chappell and Tyler Jewell, is explaining it -- that is, pulling all the pieces together into a coherent and hype-free description of what Web ...

This leads to standards-based implementation where a developer can create and consume Web services regardless of the source and target platforms. There are, of course, many different associated ...

J2EE promises ease of use and savings for EAI, but first users need a specification and a development road map INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE applications has been a thorn in the side of enterprise planners ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is working to turn its Java software for cell phones and other gadgets into a tool to leapfrog Microsoft in Web services, a movement to remake the Internet that caught ...