The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

Many developers have run into this dilemma: A CORBA client needs to obtain the services of a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) client or vice versa. The common solution is to use a COM/CORBA ...

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 ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

In the January and February installments of “At the Forge”, I demonstrated a simple three-tier web application using a database, web server and the Mason templating system for mod_perl. We were able ...

Summary: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based protocol that defines a framework for passing messages between systems over the Internet. It’s typically used for executing remote ...