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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment. OGSA definitions and criteria describe how ...

I’d like to briefly expose a few prevalent Web services notions that may be slowing the adoption of Web services and SOA. This will be a multipart series, so let’s begin Part 1. What is a Web services ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More The burgeoning world of Web services is already starting to ...