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 ...

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 ...

Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

When designing the service layer in your applications the choice of the technology to be used in the service layer depends on many factors. In this article, I will present a discussion on when and how ...

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Cazenovia College needed to appear bigger than it was. Four years ago the 900-student liberal arts school, based in Cazenovia, N.Y., decided it could better use technology – particularly its Web site ...

With all the hype being generated around Web services - generally defined as application-to-application interaction over the Internet - why has IBM, the world's largest computer company, been so quiet ...

IBM is shrewdly reinforcing its support for Web service technology and has articulated a vision--"dynamic e-business"--for the ultimate evolution of e-business, with Web services at the core. IBM's ...

Ten years from now, no doubt we’ll look back at our time and find it unbelievable that enterprise applications were built with so little disposition to communicate with the outside world. But thanks ...