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 ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

The hype surrounding Web service technologies continues to swell, with acronyms like XML, UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP becoming commonplace. Both Microsoft and Sun have recast their direction to embrace Web ...

The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) provides an XML grammar for defining and advertising a Web service, including a service's type. This article gives an overview of how to describe a Web ...

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 ...

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Microsoft's Azure App Service now supports the company's own build of OpenJDK, bringing new support for Java 17 and Tomcat 10.0. As part of its big push to further Java development in the Azure cloud, ...

Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and several other companies join a software plan that uses Java to link cell phones and servers while keeping Microsoft out of the picture. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...