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.

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The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

Looking to boost Web services deployments in business-to-business commerce, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) this week took steps toward providing how-to documents for ...

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Here's some pseudocode I want to use when the user clicks my deleteCustomer button: check that the user really wants to delete the customer ... AJAX call to retrieve Customer object .onsuccess (AJAX ...

IBM, Sun and Computer Associates have jumped aboard in support of the WS-Eventing specification for subscribing to Web services-based events, joining original developers Microsoft, BEA Systems, and ...