Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...

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Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

In this article, we examine how security applies to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before we discuss security for SOA, lets take a step back and examine what SOA is. SOA is an architectural ...

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 ...

The specification that will serve as the foundation for building security into Web services was officially ratified as a standard last week, paving the way for widespread corporate adoption. The full ...

• reduce the amount of work it takes to accomplish integration (and thereby reduce cost and schedule), and • provide flexible interfaces between systems that won't “break” when one system or the other ...

COMMENTARY -- As an architect, the time I spend with customers is valuable in helping me define industry trends. What I'm hearing lately indicates the current focus within Web services is the ...

Web services security and compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards are top-of-mind customer concerns that the latest version of Watchfire's AppScan Web application ...