Microsoft provides the .Net framework. And Java shops, of course, can implement Web services on the same platform they’re using to run their current Web applications, the J2EE application server.

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

"We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I," said Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun.

This post launches a four-part series introducing you to Java SE 6's support for Web services. Later in the series we'll build SOAP-based and RESTful-based Web services and explore advanced Web ...

"We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I," said Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun.

Most Java companies--such as IBM, Oracle, SilverStream, and now Sun--have been releasing their own Web services toolkits that offer differing guidelines to build Web services using Java.

Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...

Red Hat's JBoss division has released the 1.0 version of JBoss RESTEasy, a framework that enables developers to write Representational State Transfer-based Web services in Java. RESTEasy is a ...

Amazon Web Services has long offered an SDK to make it easier to access its web services from Java. Now it has another lure for Java programmers: James Gosling, the father of Java.

I'm currently working on a project (using PowerBuilder 10.2) that needs to consume web services. The application is in a production state and is being used, but there are some issues with web ...