VB.NET allows you to use Web services as if they were entirely local objects since most of the marshaling between the client and the server is taking place in the background. This tip shows you how to ...

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 ...

In my last article, I discussed how Web services can play a critical role in AJAX applications and the role that JSON plays in the message exchange process. In a nutshell, Web services provide a way ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

Accenture Ltd. on Tuesday outlined the first details of its upcoming Web Services and Application Development Platform, which is designed to help corporate users develop and deploy Web services for ...