I spent a few days in early December attending and making presentations at the CNET Networks conference “Building a Web Services Foundation.” The purpose of the conference was to help IT executives, ...

Interest in Web services is being driven by the desire to react quickly to market changes, customize offerings (with minimal complexity), integrate processes with business partners and, beginning in ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

The two companies, usually bitter rivals, demonstrate Web services interoperability and pledge to establish new specifications for building more advanced applications. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in ...

It’s not hard to find companies that have dipped their toes into the water to explore how Web services might help address some of their nagging integration problems. But few have launched major ...