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 ...

Interoperability is one of the main promises of Web services. Web services are designed to be independent of the underlying operating system and programming language. In this article we will introduce ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

In a Web services world, applications basically consist of remote, XML-driven components written in different languages connected via the Web using a standard remote-activation protocol. Service ...

Jini and EJBs (Enterprise JavaBeans) provide a terrific basis for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services. But SOAP is just a slightly advanced form of remote procedure calling, and ...

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

VB.NET allows you to use Web services as if they were entirely local objects since most of the marshaling between the client and the server is taking place in the background. This tip shows you how to ...