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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects. The paper describes a ...