Jini and EJBs (Enterprise JavaBeans) provide a terrific basis for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services. But SOAP is just a slightly advanced form of remote procedure calling, and ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

SOAP applications often have to deal with more than just simple messages. The payload for a SOAP message can often include a word processing or PDF document, image, or other binary file. This article ...

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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 ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

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In the first phase of the Web services rollout, tool kit vendors focus on the level of interoperability achieved by their Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language, and ...

The home page for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361. From that page, you can register for an ID, download and read documentation ...