The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

Looking for a more modern approach to web service development? Here are some of the latest REST tutorials and SOAP web services examples that we’ve published on TheServerSide. I highly recommend these ...

Many developers have run into this dilemma: A CORBA client needs to obtain the services of a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) client or vice versa. The common solution is to use a COM/CORBA ...

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.

While the world doesn't need more protocols, at least this solves a legitimate problem. SOAP tends to be rather slow and cumbersome for many situations. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...