The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

Chances are you don’t like wasting time in useless meetings. People often say “this meeting should have been an email.” But what about one-to-one calls? Could they be a series of voice messages and ...

We are all familiar with that dopamine rush of getting a new message. It feels good. We crave it. But doesn’t that make us addicts? The reality is that real time messaging, whether it’s Slack or ...

Looking to boost Web services deployments in business-to-business commerce, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) this week took steps toward providing how-to documents for ...

Three billion people use messaging apps, and their role in our day-to-day lives is continuing to grow. Around half of American smartphone users open a messaging app 11 or more times per day, and ...

The key differentiator of messaging — its asynchronous, turn-based nature — makes it an ideal channel for customer service and broader customer engagement. Businesses have access to a number of ...