Web services are all the rage, but fat protocols may make them hard to swallow. Steven Vaughan-Nichols tells you how to keep your servers from choking.

An ongoing technical debate over the value of advanced Web services protocols sparked up again this week with several engineers taking sides on blogs. The nub of the long-running debate is whether ...

What does Web services protocols actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and ...

As the number of Web services specifications proliferates, some developers advocate a return to a simpler approach.

The new WSDL 2.0 protocol adds standardization and better interoperability for Web services and service-oriented architectures.

What's new: The complexity of Web services is raising hackles. A vocal minority wants the more complicated protocols to give it a rest in favor of a simpler approach. Bottom line: Analysts say ...

In a move mostly designed to open up its identity infrastructure, Microsoft said Tuesday that it would drop intellectual-property and patent claims to 35 Web services protocols it has developed ...

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and ...

When you hear that security is one of the missing pieces of Web services, you’re probably listening to a discussion about complex SOAs that demand newfangled security protocols yet to be ...