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 ...

Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

Web services promise a brave new world of easy software integration using XML and the Web. Because they’re based on XML, Web services have the potential to serve as platform-independent glue between ...

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 ...

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...