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 ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments — that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems — that is not a likely ...