The hype surrounding Web services has reached crescendo proportions. That's not surprising given how eager some big information-technology companies are to find some sort of recurring, high-margin ...

A core concept that underlies the architecture involves crosscutting concerns. A "concern" is any concept related to the system. For example, in a banking application, crediting and debiting customer ...

The Web Services One Conference, at which developers plotted and planned a look for our next-generation Web infrastructure, wrapped up in Boston recently. Random security topics abounded within the ...

Web services—the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)—are self-contained, modular applications that one can describe, publish, locate, and invoke over a network. Web services operate at a ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

Eighteen months ago "Web services security" was still seen as an oxymoron. One of the principal reasons was that "Web services" was still largely understood as meaning "services on the Web." A CFO ...

Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...

I used to think that a Camel was something to smoke or ride in the desert, but that was before I opened my mouth at work one day and said, “Sure I can automatically save these documents up to ...

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 ...