• reduce the amount of work it takes to accomplish integration (and thereby reduce cost and schedule), and • provide flexible interfaces between systems that won't “break” when one system or the other ...

A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed. The service provides a secure, ...

Large companies hoping to secure their place in the Web services market have proposed a bevy of standards, such as the recently released Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), ...

The evolution of Web-related technologies has changed the way applications in an organization communicate with customer and partner applications. Like every popular technology, Web services came like ...

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

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 ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...