There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors ...

While SOAP and REST based web and integration services are ideal for organizations that are flush with racks of servers and blessed with an army talented software developers, a good enterprise ...

There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications? Cloud-based API data ...

A bit of rest always helps. We have to seize every opportunity to pause and reflect on where we’ve been before making new plans to move forward. In the topsy-turvy world of SOA (Service-Oriented ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

In a new post at ZDNet, Phil Windley picked up on my reporting of Tim Bray's comments around SOA ("it's all vendor BS") and gives the whole argument some much-needed perspective. Namely, that "SOAPful ...

Looking for a more modern approach to web service development? Here are some of the latest REST tutorials and SOAP web services examples that we’ve published on TheServerSide. I highly recommend these ...