Web services are all the rage, but fat protocols may make them hard to swallow. Steven Vaughan-Nichols tells you how to keep your servers from choking.

My interview with Frank Martinez, CTO of Blue Titan software is now available at IT conversations. I had some good conversations with Frank in NY in May about Web Services protocols and thought ...

See Web services protocols and XML. Web Services Protocol Stack UDDI is used to register and discover the service described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

When you hear that security is one of the missing pieces of Web services, you’re probably listening to a discussion about complex SOAs that demand newfangled security protocols yet to be ...

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and ...

There are two main reasons why Web services isn’t there yet. Most obvious is performance?Web services protocols incur much more overhead than binary communications. Another issue is that ...

The service works with XML, SOAP, and other types of Web-services protocols, and ensures that Web-services data is either sent or received across the WAN efficiently, Netli said.