(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 ...

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 ...

The communication patterns that Web services support Existing Java specifications The high-level mechanisms for translating between Java methods and SOAP messages The fundamental Web service design ...

Web services clearly will play a role in the application integration plans of many IT shops. But how big a role, and when that will happen, is anybody’s guess. Several IT managers attending Gartner ...