It all starts innocently enough. You have an object-oriented Java interface you want to turn into a Web service. You come across Axis, the Apache framework for publishing and consuming Web services ...

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 ...

In a world of microservices development and Docker-based deployments, RESTful web services tend to grab all the headlines. However, there's still a place in modern enterprise architectures for ...

The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...