While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

Google released its SOAP API in 2002, allowing developers for the first time to begin incorporating data from Google's search results into their own non-commercial applications. Earlier this month, it ...

One of the most popular public web services on the Internet, the Google Translate API, was deprecated without warning Thursday and will go dark later this year. Visitors to the API's web site were ...

While few, if any, cloud watchers would challenge the notion that Amazon Web Services is the leader in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public-cloud market, the open-source OpenStack committee ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

Parts 1 through 3 of this four-part series on developing Web services in Java SE first presented an overview of Web services and Java SE’s support for developing them. The series then focused on ...

There are many times when your Android app will need to fetch data from the internet, to provide users with fresh information and/or data. There are different ways your app could achieve this. You ...