Sun Microsystems delays a much-anticipated Java specification by three months to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

More known for political snits than tech leadership, the Web Services Interoperability group, backed by IBM and others, shoots for a turnaround. But the first step's a doozy. Martin LaMonica is a ...

The Web Services One Conference, at which developers plotted and planned a look for our next-generation Web infrastructure, wrapped up in Boston recently. Random security topics abounded within the ...

Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on its Java rivals with plans for new software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. The software, code-named Indigo, is the ...

Web services—the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)—are self-contained, modular applications that one can describe, publish, locate, and invoke over a network. Web services operate at a ...

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services. The ...

Parts 1 through 3 of this four-part series on developing Web services in Java SE first presented an overview of Web services and Java SE’s support for developing them. The series then focused on ...