More known for political snits than tech leadership, the Web Services Interoperability group, backed by IBM and others, shoots for a turnaround. But the first step's a doozy. Martin LaMonica is a ...

The hype surrounding Web services has reached crescendo proportions. That's not surprising given how eager some big information-technology companies are to find some sort of recurring, high-margin ...

The Web Services One Conference, at which developers plotted and planned a look for our next-generation Web infrastructure, wrapped up in Boston recently. Random security topics abounded within the ...

Web services—the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)—are self-contained, modular applications that one can describe, publish, locate, and invoke over a network. Web services operate at a ...

A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: Security. The Web Services Interoperability organization (WS-I) was formed last ...

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services. The ...

When leafing through the pages of the recently ratified JSR-375, the new Java EE Security API, it's amusing how quickly the reading of the spec turns into an exercise of uttering to yourself, ...

Parts 1 through 3 of this four-part series on developing Web services in Java SE first presented an overview of Web services and Java SE’s support for developing them. The series then focused on ...

XML is a wonderful advancement in data formatting, but it provides no inherent security. There are various XML security techniques, and this article provides a summary and comparison of the most ...

Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...