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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Before there was EJB 3.0 and the annotation based approach to SOAP web services creation, there ...

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 ...

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 promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

It’s a perfectly reasonable goal for a Web service toolkit and runtime engine: allow a developer to take a server interface, brand it a Web service, and automatically generate some client-side proxy ...