Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

One of the biggest problems with Web services, said David Chappell and Tyler Jewell, is explaining it -- that is, pulling all the pieces together into a coherent and hype-free description of what Web ...

Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE; known in previous versions as J2EE) is the engine behind at least half of all the Web services/SOA implementations out there, so it's big news when a new version of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

"Microsoft actually supports what people are calling 'Web services' - SOAP, xML, etc. - better than Java," says Randy Starr, Countermind's director of mobile and wireless solutions practice.