Sun plays catch up with Web services. The company, sensing it has fallen behind rivals Microsoft and IBM in Web services leadership, is launching a renewed strategy in an attempt to play catch up. ...

Microsoft SQLXML 3.0 lets you leverage you existing Transact-SQL stored procedures by generating WSDL files for single or multiple query resultsets. This article shows you how to take advantage of ...

The Right Car Mounting problems with the BMW 7 Series. Maybe one day people will realize how overrated the Beemer really is. Nice car for the most part but definetly much to overhyped. Don’t be...

UDDI - content itself, or directory? […] The problem is that we’ve placed UDDI at the wrong point in the protocol stack. It’s not the equivalent of a Google; it’s the equivalent of the Web. UDD...

WS-Security Putting credentials in a SOAP header without an ecrypted channel is a waste of time, but if you have an encrypted channel, you might as well use the channel’s authentication support...

I’ve updated the web services security story with some input from Justin Rudd.

REST vs. SOAP… Each of these battles has the sides well dug in, though the resistance from the non-adopters seems to be stronger than the push from the early adopters. [Gordon Weakliem] Careful...

This widely published article basically claims that Web Services will be subject to DOS attacks and claims “UDDI will help your attacker to find any services that have been published within the net...

Computer Science Education I had an email exchange recently with a fairly popular CTO and author. His position is the university computer science department should be a training ground for the ...

Ok, I couldn’t stand it any more.  Why does every article I read on this subject lately advocate using custom SOAP headers to transmit user credentials for web services?  I just don’t get it.  I st...