Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

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 ...

New technology promises to smooth the way for BPI, EAI, and Web-based application development, but the work isn't done yet When THE 2002 InfoWorld Web Services Applications Survey asked readers to ...

Web services have been hyped as the "new" new thing -- the future of business and personal living. John Rommel shows how the certainty of change, driven by the business necessity to deliver faster, ...

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 ...