The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo. The architecture ...

(1) A Web service may refer to any capability delivered from a website. Since there are countless applications and services that emanate from the Web, such usage of the term is commonplace in articles ...

Never before has a set of protocols created so much excitement. But simply chanting the acronyms SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI--the three XML protocols that define Web services--won't make the promised ...

Following is an outline of most of the protocols used to deliver Web services. The services prefixed with the "WS-" are often called the "WS protocols" or "WS* protocols." See Web services. THIS ...