Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

Only a few years ago, the high-tech industry was afire with talk of "network computing" and "push technology." Then "PC-TV convergence" came into vogue, only to give way to "B2B" and "ASPs," which in ...

Shrink-wrapped software is dead! Long live software as a service! That's likely to be the 2001 battle cry of software vendors, though they may have a ways to go. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

A web service is an agreed way for different computers to share information across the Internet. An example of a web service is, in a way, RSS (see R - Do you speak my language: R is for RSS, Router, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

FRANK MOSS IS now back at the helm at Bowstreet, which this week launched Version 5.0 of its Business Factory offering. Bowstreet helped pioneer the Web services category and is now leveraging ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new services that provide automation and prescriptive guidance ...

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday. By Melissa Eddy An outage at Amazon Web Services on Monday ...