This is a very good time to be a Web application developer. Over the years we have moved from complex and proprietary methods of sharing data, to a more standardized and easy-to-implement method of exchanging simple or complex objects over the Web.

There has been much debate lately on what exactly WSDL's purpose is, and much of that debate has focused on whether WSDL is an interface definition language (IDL), or whether WSDL is better used to specify message-level contracts (without any associated operational semantics).

In what may or may not be just a high-tech April Fool, Google says it's launching a free e-mail service, leveraging Google search technology to automatically organize and find messages, and coming with a free gigabyte of storage.

There's a lot going on in business and IT today, and it's rapidly becoming more important that you have a good understanding of e-business on demand, service-oriented architecture, Web services, and grid computing. I've been in more than one conversation and read more than one article ...

Internet auction site eBay received the ultimate validation when Gary Johnson and his mother Elaine put up for auction a 'little bitty house' that they've lived in for 10 years...and that Bill Clinton used to live in when he was 5. Clinton lived at the 13th Street, Hope, Arkansas resid...

In what it's describing as 'another industry first,' a Waltham, MA-based company has announced a 'Web services security' play, releasing what it is claiming is the only way stop a new breed of Web services-related threats before they enter the network.

'The pundits and prognosticators see .NET as a threat to Java's future, but that's silly,' writes Tim Bray on his first day as a new employee at Sun Micrososystems. 'Parts of .NET look technically excellent,' he continues, 'but it has three fatal flaws.'

The creation and adoption of 'standards' help to bring about interoperability. Within the management area, the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) specification, currently being developed within OASIS, is an attempt to bring about interoperability for the management of distribut...

More than ever, midsized businesses face the challenge of operating in a global economy, where nothing stands still. Product life cycles that once might have been measured in terms of years, are now measured in months or even weeks. From development to service, successful companies are...

Object-oriented technologies are used today in the design and development processes for many computer systems; it is a proven paradigm and has made possible the development of large and complex software systems. Enabling platforms and tools for building and consuming Web services will ...

Web Services Journal recently asked its editorial advisory board for their answers on several questions about where Web services is going next year.

You've heard the hype about .NET. You've read a couple of vague articles about dynamic discovery and invocation, service-oriented architecture, and how SOAP and a handful of other XML standards are forever changing the software industry. You want to explore the world of .NET, but are u...

In the past decade 'workflow' has become one of the most overloaded terms in the software industry. Almost every application is tagged as 'based on workflow.' While this doesn't always mean a lot, there is good reason for it; it involves recognition among software architects that t...