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 ...

This week I'll cover how you can use ASP.NET AJAX to consume .NET Web services that have been marked with the ScriptServiceAttribute class. By using Web services, you can significantly minimize ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...

While the core of the Web services set of protocols has been agreed upon, many supporting protocols are still in the shop. Is there value in implementing Web services right now, and how is it best to ...