The REST paradigm can be a natural fit for microservices architectures, but it also presents potential challenges for development teams. Continue Reading ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core allows you to create Web Services based on gRPC ... which raises two questions: "What is gRPC?" and "Does it ever make sense to use it?" Here are Peter's answers. If you're working with ...

Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the ...

If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature Representational State Transfer (REST) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework, ...

In an interview with InfoWorld’s Paul Krill at OSCON in July, Tim Bray of Sun, the co-inventor of XML, branded the SOAP stack for XML Web services “a failure.” SOAP is of course based on XML, and the ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...