The company releases a starter kit featuring a tutorial and development tools to allow software developers to use Java to build and run Web services.

Developers need to know how to invoke web services quickly and efficiently. Here are five RESTful web service client examples to help you determine which one makes the most sense for your enterprise.

Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature REST (Representational State Transfer) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework ...