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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the computer industry increasingly focuses on Web services, the Web's premier standards body is weathering vociferous criticism from members and analysts alike that it is dropping the ball on this ...

Web services enable us to build distributed systems where application components on a network can be accessed in a platform-neutral, language-agnostic, and implementation-independent way. It doesn’t ...