(1) A Web service may refer to any capability delivered from a website. Since there are countless applications and services that emanate from the Web, such usage of the term is commonplace in articles ...

Boston One presenter at last week’s XML Web Services One Conference drew a laugh when she told attendees, “Ask five people to define Web services and you’ll get at least six answers.” Even though Web ...

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 ...

It’s a perfectly reasonable goal for a Web service toolkit and runtime engine: allow a developer to take a server interface, brand it a Web service, and automatically generate some client-side proxy ...

In a Web services world, applications basically consist of remote, XML-driven components written in different languages connected via the Web using a standard remote-activation protocol. Service ...

While XML-transparent Web service development might sound like the easy way to go, understanding and manipulating XML in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages can actually avoid some ...