ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Although few corporate users have rushed to build Web services, that won’t stop scores of vendors at next week’s JavaOne conference from trying to convince them that their platforms are better for ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

Google released its SOAP API in 2002, allowing developers for the first time to begin incorporating data from Google's search results into their own non-commercial applications. Earlier this month, it ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

At SCO Forum 2003, SCO announced the delivery of key component of its SCOx Web services initiative--SCOx WebFace Solution Suite 4.0--as well as the SCOsms Web Services API and SCObiz Web Services APIs ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

• reduce the amount of work it takes to accomplish integration (and thereby reduce cost and schedule), and • provide flexible interfaces between systems that won't “break” when one system or the other ...