Web services combine the best aspects of component-based development with the Web’s ubiquity and easy access. Think of Web services as black-box functionality you can reuse without worrying about how ...

Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

We will explain here the basic architecture of Web Services. We have already discussed in our previous article that the three basic operations in any Web Service are Service Publication, Service ...

Web services relies on software standards. Here is a brief description of what each of the four major Web services standards does. SOAP (simple object access protocol) Describes how one application ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...