The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo. The architecture ...

(1) A Web service may refer to any capability delivered from a website. Since there are countless applications and services that emanate from the Web, such usage of the term is commonplace in articles ...

Boston One presenter at last week’s XML Web Services One Conference drew a laugh when she told attendees, “Ask five people to define Web services and you’ll get at least six answers.” Even though Web ...

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 ...

The reality: Web services hold much promise, and if you're not already on board, you will be eventually. But security fears are valid and must be addressed from the get-go. Competing standards ...

While XML-transparent Web service development might sound like the easy way to go, understanding and manipulating XML in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages can actually avoid some ...

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 ...

Following is an outline of most of the protocols used to deliver Web services. The services prefixed with the "WS-" are often called the "WS protocols" or "WS* protocols." See Web services. THIS ...