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 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 ...

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 ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

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 ...

Java Web Service Development Kit (JWSDK) is used write a simple Web service called CurrencyConvertor, which accepts an integer value (dollars), multiplies it with the current rupee value of a dollar ...

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 ...

The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) provides an XML grammar for defining and advertising a Web service, including a service's type. This article gives an overview of how to describe a Web ...

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