Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

Organizations that attempt to do business online quickly learn that there are lots of IT-related problems that others have already solved. Increasingly, those solutions are becoming readily available ...

For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...