Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

As I’ve been putting a paper together for my Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2009 presentation REST from Web Services Frustrations, I have been wanting a very simple HTTP ...

While SOAP and REST based web and integration services are ideal for organizations that are flush with racks of servers and blessed with an army talented software developers, a good enterprise ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature Representational State Transfer (REST) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework, ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

Bob Sutor, IBM's director of Websphere infrastructure, tells about his company's Web services plan, pushes SOA technology and urges Sun to bring Java out in the open. Sutor was a member of IBM ...