Productivity
Testing
Web applications are a lot more complicated these days than even a few years ago. We don’t hear a lot these days about Web services as a development technology, but virtually every Web application that uses commonly provided services will access those service via traditional Web services technology. If your Web application reports on the weather, or provides a stock market update, you are using a Web service. A Web service uses HTTP, but it runs the SOAP, REST, or similar protocol over that. And if your stock market updates are slow or accumulating timeout errors, chances are you are ...