The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

While the world doesn't need more protocols, at least this solves a legitimate problem. SOAP tends to be rather slow and cumbersome for many situations. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

So you’re a Java developer trying to stay on the cutting edge? With all the uncertainty in the software industry, you want to know what the future of the Web holds and, more importantly, how you can ...

The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors ...

Summary: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based protocol that defines a framework for passing messages between systems over the Internet. It’s typically used for executing remote ...

Many developers have run into this dilemma: A CORBA client needs to obtain the services of a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) client or vice versa. The common solution is to use a COM/CORBA ...

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. In a nutshell, SOAP is a wire protocol similar to the IIOP for CORBA, ORPC for DCOM, or Java Remote Method Protocol (JRMP) for Java Remote Method ...