Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

In my last article, I discussed how Web services can play a critical role in AJAX applications and the role that JSON plays in the message exchange process. In a nutshell, Web services provide a way ...

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