The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

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 ...

I'm trying to get started with this stuff, and I'm getting nowhere. I've tried to follow several articles online, as well as videos on YouTube, and I still can't get ...

I've got a third party web service method that I'm calling from a .NET 3.5 application. The method is a password change request where you pass in your old password and are assigned a random new one ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web ...

Usually, developers use WSDL to describe Web services’ semantics, such as method signatures, return types, and so on, in an implementation-independent way. This WSDL description is then embedded in ...

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...