SANTA CLARA – In a move mostly designed to open up its identity infrastructure, Microsoft said Tuesday that it would drop intellectual-property and patent claims to 35 Web services protocols it has ...

A proposed method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. The protocol, developed by Jonghun ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Following is an outline of most of the protocols used to deliver Web services. The services prefixed with the "WS-" are often called the "WS protocols" or "WS* protocols." See Web services. THIS ...

Frank Martinez on Web services protocols My interview with Frank Martinez, CTO of Blue Titan software is now available at IT conversations. I had some good conversations with Frank in NY in May about ...

According to the web service SOA model, every computer in the network can run an arbitrary number of web services, and each web service may be built in a way that ensures that the service can exchange ...

When you hear that security is one of the missing pieces of Web services, you’re probably listening to a discussion about complex SOAs that demand newfangled security protocols yet to be submitted to ...

Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex? A debate is raging over whether the number of specifications based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), defining ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...

Here’s one popular definition of insanity: “Do the same thing, expecting a different result.” Now consider the following partial list of proposed standards for Web services: WS-Addressing, ...

Web services may be the next big thing, but a group of users, analysts and even Web services vendors acknowledged last week at a roundtable on the issue that significant barriers to using the ...

(1) A Web service may refer to any capability delivered from a website. Since there are countless applications and services that emanate from the Web, such usage of the term is commonplace in articles ...