At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

Web services promise a brave new world of easy software integration using XML and the Web. Because they’re based on XML, Web services have the potential to serve as platform-independent glue between ...

Few corporate users have rushed to build Web services, but that won’t stop scores of vendors at this week’s JavaOne conference from positioning their platforms as better for developing those services ...