Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

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 ...

SOAP applications often have to deal with more than just simple messages. The payload for a SOAP message can often include a word processing or PDF document, image, or other binary file. This article ...

New technology promises to smooth the way for BPI, EAI, and Web-based application development, but the work isn't done yet When THE 2002 InfoWorld Web Services Applications Survey asked readers to ...

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 ...

Is Microsoft’s .Net a better alternative to J2EE for creating Web services? Join the online discussion in the Computerworld forums. The cornerstones of Web services include the Universal Description, ...