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 ...

I've got a third party web service method that I'm calling from a .NET 3.5 application. The method is a password change request where you pass in your old password and are assigned a random new one ...

I'm trying to get started with this stuff, and I'm getting nowhere. I've tried to follow several articles online, as well as videos on YouTube, and I still can't get ...

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 ...

In a previous article, I demonstrated how easy it is to consume web services with Mustang. As you know, Mustang is the project name for the next version of Java Standard Edition 6. Mustang supports ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

A Web service is, after all, a collection of procedures exposed to the unforgiving thoroughfare of the Net (be it inter- or intra-). And a failed Web service invites wrath not only from the managers ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web ...