How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

I've got a third party web service method that I'm calling from a .NET 3.5 application. The method is a password change request where you pass in your old password and are assigned a random new one ...

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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 ...

In this configuration, all host application requests flow through the same transaction server web service, request and response data flows as a single variable length character string, and all host ...

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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 ...

Web services have become a standard for building client/server applications. Learn an approach for using the JAX-RPC SI toolkit to generate a Web service's client-side code. Web services are emerging ...

For the past six months at RCG Information Technology, Inc., I’ve been implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web services and a business process management tool. This experience ...

If you haven’t been keeping up with what Sun Microsystems has been cooking up for the next release of Java, here is a wakeup call: For months now, Sun has been providing early releases of binaries, ...