Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

One of the things that I liked about WSDL/SOAP services is that a WSDL contract for a Web Service could be used to generate a client proxy that was guaranteed to work with your Web Service. With a ...

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It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced the launch of Snyk API & Web, a new dynamic application security testing or DAST solution designed to meet the growing demands of modern and ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

No matter how big your company is or what it does, security is a primary consideration when choosing a Web service for all applications. This first in a series of three articles describes the 10 most ...