Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

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 ...

TheServerSide has published a number of articles on the tenets of effective RESTful web service design, along with examples of how to actually create a cloud-native application using Spring Boot and ...

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 ...

The Progress Co. plans to announce OpenEdge, a development platform for creating applications that consume and generate Web services, at its annual users conference next week in Boston. Progress will ...

No one can dispute that the Web has fundamentally altered the way we shop, do business and are entertained. But underneath it all, the Web remains what it has always been-an enormous collection of ...

WEB SERVICES HOLD the potential to change many things about software, not the least of which is how it is developed. Despite vendors’ claims that Web services are more evolutionary than revolutionary, ...