The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

Over the past couple of years, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has taken off at rocket speed. A solid understanding of SOAP concepts has become essential for any strong software professional, ...

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 ...

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In the January and February installments of “At the Forge”, I demonstrated a simple three-tier web application using a database, web server and the Mason templating system for mod_perl. We were able ...

I'm trying to connect to a web service that uses ssl + http basic authentication, and I can't seem to get the basic auth to work.<br><br>I assume that the ssl part is all taken care of by sending the ...

Summary: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based protocol that defines a framework for passing messages between systems over the Internet. It’s typically used for executing remote ...