(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 ...

Boston One presenter at last week’s XML Web Services One Conference drew a laugh when she told attendees, “Ask five people to define Web services and you’ll get at least six answers.” Even though Web ...

SAN FRANCISCO--For all the buzz around the new concept called Web services, it will remain just that--a concept--until businesses figure out how and why to use such services, according to Microsoft ...

Web services are platform-independent interfaces based on well-understood internet protocols and standards. Web services enable any system within an IT infrastructure to send requests and receive ...

Steve Ross-Talbot, chief scientist, Enigmatec, discusses how Web Services need to be effectively designed and integrated – choreographed – to provide true business process management. Ross-Talbot is ...