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.

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 ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — The OASIS standards body is in the early stages of building a specification that will handle asynchrony for Web services. The ASAP (Asynchronous Service Access Protocol) technical ...

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 ...

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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 ...