The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a language based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) that defines the protocol for interactive ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), of which Apple is a member, has issued Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 and WSDL 1.2 Bindings as W3C Public Working ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

Web service1.A Web service is a software system identified by a URI [RFC 2396], whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other ...

As more and more companies seek to conduct significant business over the Internet, they face the problem of making their applications work with those of their customers and suppliers. The difficulty ...

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Four major software makers will launch an updated test version of a public Web services directory that lets businesses list and find online services. IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and SAP on Monday ...

COMMENTARY--Open. Interoperable. Reusable. Flexible. These are just some of the words that most software vendors have applied to describe the importance, appeal and future of Web services. Similarly, ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

One of the biggest concerns with exposing Web applications and services to the Internet is whether their security is adequate. Sure, if you start with a green field and a big enough budget, you can ...

MAINTAINING A GRASP on Web services development platforms and environments can be a challenge. To help developers remain familiar with these innovations, IBM has released the next iteration of its ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...