SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

Testing tools and methodologies for the web are in their infancy, most observers agree. The good news, though, is that some concepts and tools to help get you started do exist, and more are coming in ...

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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 ...

Testing Web services is a tricky task because of the currently limited choice of tools. In an effort to fill the gap the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an open industry effort set ...

Web services—the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)—are self-contained, modular applications that one can describe, publish, locate, and invoke over a network. Web services operate at a ...