At the conclusion of his J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) Web services presentation at last year’s JavaOne, IBM architect Jim Knutson remarked that “every Web service needs a place to be a ...

Web services aren’t a technology unto themselves, but rather a new programming model that simply makes use of a few common technology specifications. The basic building blocks of a Web service are ...

Few corporate users have rushed to build Web services, but that won’t stop scores of vendors at this week’s JavaOne conference from positioning their platforms as better for developing those services ...

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) ...