Web services, another way

Web services have become a watchword for cooperation among today’s distributed systems. If the whole machinery around a SOAP call has ever made you break into a slight sweat—or if you have only heard a few tales about web services—know that there are simpler ways to tap their potential.

Wolfgang Sommergut’s article Alternative paths to web services briefly explains what web services involve and gives readers a straightforward introduction. The popularity of XML-RPC and REST (Representational State Transfer) shows that web services can also be easy to use. If you do not know those terms, head to the article.