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Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

Like it or not, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a hot topic, and SOAP-based Web services have emerged as the most common implementation of SOA. But, as James Governor put it, “SOA reality ...

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 ...

SOAP makes provisions for sending binary files across the transport protocol by encoding the binary data with base64 and attaching the encoded data to the SOAP message. This adds overhead on both the ...

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 ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...