Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments — that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems — that is not a likely ...

At the conclusion of his J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) Web services presentation at last year’s JavaOne, IBM architect Jim Knutson remarked that “every Web service needs a place to be a ...

The Web has emerged today, particularly the Java platform. The Web has opened up dramatic new possibilities and challenges for the software development community, and the scalability and portability ...

The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security ...

Developers designing network-centered computing and control products must cope with a wide range of implementation issues inside the box, a bewildering array of connectivity issues outside of it and a ...

"You want to think Web services when you need to connect to a lot of heterogeneous systems," says Bob Sutor, IBM's director of Web services. Mobile and wireless professional services worldwide will ...

Web services may be the latest hot topic of conversation, but for many companies, that’s all the technology amounts to — talk. Not so for four pioneering companies where Web services are already in ...

Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on its Java rivals with plans for new software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. The software, code-named Indigo, is the ...

Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...

SINGAPORE--Web services adoption by businesses in the island-state now stands at 14 percent, up from 8 percent in 2003, industry officials say. During an industry seminar promoting Web services ...