In the first article of this series (WSJ, Vol. 3, issue 12), I described generic Java and examined the issues involved in supporting variant generic types in Java. That article also explained how generic variant types increase the readability, maintainability, and safety of our code.

XML and Web Services are simple, but powerful standards that enable applications to more efficiently communicate with each other. Similar to how Internet-based technologies enable person-to-person (email)and person-application communication (web pages), XML Web Services is revolutionizing application-to-application communication.

In this article, originally published on ASPToday.com, Darshan Singh looks at how we can build a smart tag handler DLL in Visual Basic 6.0 that uses the .NET Web service to get the data.

Welcome to Part 3 of An Extensive Examination of Web Services! In this part we'll examine how to consume a Web service from a client application. The client application, mind you, can be any application that can issue an HTTP request to the Web service.

A Tutorial on Creating ASP.NET Web Service.

The purpose of this article is to give you a "hands-on" introduction to XML Web Services. This article is intended for the application developer looking for a quick Step-by-Step on how to build XML Web Services and/or for the business decision maker looking to get a better understanding of what XML Web Services are and how they can be used.

BEA SYSTEMS ANNOUNCED support Monday for a new Java specification that should allow for greater interoperability among Web services applications, regardless of which vendor's software is used to build and deploy them.

This sample application has been designed to introduce the features of Sun ONE Application Server 7 and to demonstrate the use of the Java API for XML-Based RPC (JAX-RPC) to implement Web services.

All accounts predict that web services, a programming method designed to enable communication between disparate systems, is the future of computing.

This article is about web services. It's meant as an introduction for those of you who think that web services are only for computer nerds. They're not. If you think otherwise it might be because of the many difficult-to-read articles that have tried to address the subject, often in very technical terms.

XML Web Services Articles on XML Web Services using the .NET Framework, including build XML Web Services, and proxy clients for consuming

Web Services Here's a list of articles that pertain to Web services, which can help you create modular, platform-neutral software components and recombine them as new business models.

Web services should be simple. What could be easier than combining XML and HTTP to let programs talk to other programs?

JAX-RPC stands for Java API for XML-based RPC. It's an API for building Web services and clients that use remote procedure calls (RPC) and XML. Often used in a distributed client/server model, an RPC mechanism enables clients to execute procedures on other systems.

With the advent of .NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft introduced a set of new technologies in the form of Web services and .NET remoting. .NET remoting and ASP.NET Web services are powerful technologies that provide a suitable framework for developing distributed applications. It is important to understand how both technologies work and then choose the one that is right for your application.

Tracy Gardner introduces web services, self-describing applications that can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.

Versioning of a product means maintaining different versions of it. In a real-world scenario, an organization creates different versions of its software; it releases new versions of its product and upgrades to its current versions. Supporting multiple versions of the product through Web services is different than the traditional method of supporting the multiple versions of the product. This is due to the nature of Web services, which are loosely coupled.

Tutorial and other articles on Web Services.

Here in part two, we will examine a real application built with the Microsoft MapPoint .NET XML Web service to get a first hand look and an appreciation of the simplicity this new generation of location technologies brings to your applications.

Python's motto has always been "batteries included," referring to the large array of standard libraries and facilities that come with the language installation. This article presents an overview and survey of tools and facilities available for Web services development in Python. This includes built-in Python features and third-party open-source tools.