The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

Successful deployment of Java-based Web services requires detailed knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts behind Web services, different Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

IBM on Friday unveiled a set of programming tools specifically designed to bring Web services to mobile devices. The new Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices (WSTK) provides developers with tools ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. in recent months has been making up for lost time by throwing itself into the heart of the Web services action that has largely been led by its rivals. Mark Bauhaus, a 16-year ...

Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the ...

Like comparing cats and dogs? You may now have some idea what web services are all about. Vendors, however, all have their own, slightly different approaches. Microsoft and Sun are arguably the two ...