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 ...

As large organizations find increasing difficulty in merging many complex, mission-critical software systems into their established and evolving computing infrastructures, the role of the enterprise ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soocial is a service that syncs your addresses on your phone, computer and online services. Their tagline: “A million devices, one magical address book.” Today, its chief developer, Stefan Fountain ...

Faced with demand to develop more sophisticated Web services, a new working group — formed within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — is set to tackle key standards challenges, including reliable ...

Editor’s Note: Brian Guy is Director of Cloud Services for Dev9, a custom software development firm focused on cloud services. Thanks to innovation from companies such as Amazon with AWS, Microsoft ...

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 ...

Web services can provide an open and interoperable development framework, but the technology requires an architecture unlike anything built before. Every few years a new technology bursts upon the ...

The Web's leading standards body is forging ahead with new Web services initiatives, putting out a new draft proposal and co-sponsoring an August meeting on security. The World Wide Web Consortium ...