In the ongoing contention between SOAP and REST as a Web services protocol, many developers appear to drawn to REST. The latest release of Ruby on Rails, the lightweight development framework which ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

Every day more businesses migrate towards the web. They offer on-line support for their clients. This support translated in web pages must be linked with the companies’ data servers. The solution for ...

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 ...

Remember the heyday of Web services, when we were always just one specification away from perfect interoperability? Ultimately, that towering stack of protocols collapsed under its own weight. SOAP ...