The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a language based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) that defines the protocol for interactive ...

Web services relies on software standards. Here is a brief description of what each of the four major Web services standards does. SOAP (simple object access protocol) Describes how one application ...

SAN JOSE, CA—The cause of open standards moves forward apace. The latest development: The W3C has accepted the submission of the 1.1 release of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) ...

Sun Microsystems has released a preliminary version of an update to its Java 2 Enterprise Edition software, with support for a major new Web services standard. Sun announced late Thursday that a ...