If you've done any Web development at all recently, you've no doubt heard the buzz going on about Web Services and Ajax. The industry hype is so prevalent that you'd almost think people were talking ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

COMMENTARY--Web services continues to enjoy a great deal of industry enthusiasm and attention, primarily for its perceived role in the future of application and partner integration. Yet skepticism ...

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 ...