Web services environments suffer from architectural shortcomings that cause the technology’s performance to suffer in enterprise companies, says a recent report from Burton Group. To start, Web ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

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A Web service can be more specifically defined as a piece of software that can be referred to by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and that uses XML to detail its contracts or interfaces and ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...