Simple text messages, readable and writable by people and computers, live at the core of every successful Internet application. XML seeks to grow the expressive power of these texts while preserving ...

Now that Web services have firmly established themselves in the enterprise, developers face mounting pressure to keep up with the latest development and deployment technologies — sometimes even before ...

Sun Microsystems has released a preliminary version of an update to its Java 2 Enterprise Edition software, with support for a major new Web services standard. Sun announced late Thursday that a ...

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Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

Sun Microsystems is set to further define its vision for Web services as it vies with rival Microsoft for control over the future of business computing on the Internet. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a language based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) that defines the protocol for interactive ...

The Web's leading standards group has updated its core draft specification for Web services. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

Cities and states tap a new IP-centric approach to data sharing. In Chicago, a major hurdle has been convincing agencies that the upfront investment will be worth the savings Web services will ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), of which Apple is a member, has issued Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 and WSDL 1.2 Bindings as W3C Public Working ...