The brass ring of Web services is the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL), the mechanism for specifying how a service operates. WSDL consists of a structured XML document that specifies endpoints ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

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 ...

If you've heard the term Web services from vendors and the press lately, you're not alone. While the phrase is bandied about a lot, there's a woeful shortage of substantive discussion. So what are Web ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...