Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

Rick Hightower, CTO at Trivera Technologies LLC (www.triveratech.com), a training and consulting firm helping companies with Web services implementations, said that he's impressed with the wizard ...

Web services combine the best aspects of component-based development with the Web’s ubiquity and easy access. Think of Web services as black-box functionality you can reuse without worrying about how ...

SAN JOSE, CA—The cause of open standards moves forward apace. The latest development: The W3C has accepted the submission of the 1.1 release of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) ...

The <service> element is intended to locate a Web service, but obviously you have to know where the Web service is to get to the WSDL in the first place. Alternative location mechanisms, like UDDI ...

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 ...