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 ...

Jini and EJBs (Enterprise JavaBeans) provide a terrific basis for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services. But SOAP is just a slightly advanced form of remote procedure calling, and ...

Is REST eclipsing SOAP Web services as the standard of choice, as we move toward service-orienting our enterprises? Is the Web 2.0 social media accelerating this trend? What does this all mean for ...

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 ...

While SOAP and REST based web and integration services are ideal for organizations that are flush with racks of servers and blessed with an army talented software developers, a good enterprise ...

The Web Service Enhancements (WSE) standard provides a robust infrastructure for securing Web services by using client and/or server X509 certificates, Kerberos, or username tokens. It does more than ...

The exodus from Visual Studio 6.0 to .NET has begun for most developers. But with this new coding model comes decoupled services in the form of Web services. However, if you still have to maintain and ...

I am using a program that generates code for people like that couldn't do it on their own I noticed my web.config has 3 endpoint address entries inside the service name: As there are no answers. What ...

VB.NET allows you to use Web services as if they were entirely local objects since most of the marshaling between the client and the server is taking place in the background. This tip shows you how to ...

This protocol shows how to access the Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools (RSAT) via a programmatic interface in order to automate the analysis of multiple data sets. We describe the steps for writing ...