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 ...

Soocial is a service that syncs your addresses on your phone, computer and online services. Their tagline: “A million devices, one magical address book.” Today, its chief developer, Stefan Fountain ...

The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo. The architecture ...

As large organizations find increasing difficulty in merging many complex, mission-critical software systems into their established and evolving computing infrastructures, the role of the enterprise ...

For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...

Editor’s Note: Brian Guy is Director of Cloud Services for Dev9, a custom software development firm focused on cloud services. Thanks to innovation from companies such as Amazon with AWS, Microsoft ...

Web services can provide an open and interoperable development framework, but the technology requires an architecture unlike anything built before. Every few years a new technology bursts upon the ...

A core concept that underlies the architecture involves crosscutting concerns. A "concern" is any concept related to the system. For example, in a banking application, crediting and debiting customer ...

I’d like to briefly expose a few prevalent Web services notions that may be slowing the adoption of Web services and SOA. This will be a multipart series, so let’s begin Part 1. What is a Web services ...

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