Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

Life-scientific Web services are increasingly available and diverse. Their semantic interoperability is crucial to enable automated workflow construction and efficient searching for the right service.

Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...