The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

Looking to boost Web services deployments in business-to-business commerce, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) this week took steps toward providing how-to documents for ...

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