If you struggled to access some websites and online services today, November 18 2025, you weren’t alone as an issue with a service provider had a serious knock-on effect for several sites. The good ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Web service composition is one of the challenging issues that have been investigated over the past decade. It consists of combining and reusing existing Web services to best suit new user requirements ...

ABSTRACT: The non-functional QoS (quality of service) information helps us to select a proper Web-service from the web applications, by using component services such as UDDI[1](Universal Description, ...

Abstract: Semantic Web Service technology provides a strong support for automation software development based on Web service. By analyzing the existing description models and methods of semantic Web ...

Testing Web services is a tricky task because of the currently limited choice of tools. In an effort to fill the gap the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an open industry effort set ...

A Microsoft- and IBM-backed group that promotes the use of the emerging UDDI Web services specification announced Thursday that its members would start distributing test copies of the latest version ...

The result is that a J2EE 1.4-based application can be invoked as a Web service, even from applications not written in the Java programming language. While that is an evolutionary step for J2EE, since ...

The benefits of Web services include the decoupling of service interfaces from implementations and platform considerations, the enablement of dynamic service binding, and an increase in cross-language ...