Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Before there was EJB 3.0 and the annotation based approach to SOAP web services creation, there ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

The Web Service Enhancements (WSE) standard provides a robust infrastructure for securing Web services by using client and/or server X509 certificates, Kerberos, or username tokens. It does more than ...

Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls. Web services ...

SAN FRANCISCO--For all the buzz around the new concept called Web services, it will remain just that--a concept--until businesses figure out how and why to use such services, according to Microsoft ...