Web services environments suffer from architectural shortcomings that cause the technology’s performance to suffer in enterprise companies, says a recent report from Burton Group. To start, Web ...

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 ...

For the past six months at RCG Information Technology, Inc., I’ve been implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web services and a business process management tool. This experience ...

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A Web service can be more specifically defined as a piece of software that can be referred to by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and that uses XML to detail its contracts or interfaces and ...

Web services is all the rage. Web services holds the promise of being able to transform software to services. The Java platform, Java Enterprise Edition (JavaEE) in particular, is a popular choice for ...