Last time around, I told you that if you wanted to support Web services you could look forward to upgrading your old servers and adding new ones. And, indeed, that will go a long way to making Web ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA – In a move mostly designed to open up its identity infrastructure, Microsoft said Tuesday that it would drop intellectual-property and patent claims to 35 Web services protocols it has ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

The security protocol that began to increase use of Web services on corporate networks is now a year old: WS-Security has firmly established itself as a foundation IT can trust for securing XML-based ...

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 submitted to ...

Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex? A debate is raging over whether the number of specifications based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), defining ...