SOAP, REST, Web Services and Ajax

Ajax and Web services
A new kind of (lazy rich and powerful) client - (powerful) server paradygm

If there is something which is supposed to be working well with Ajax, is calling Web Services from Ajax .


You can begin (and think about how many problems and black clouds will arrive soon) by reading this interesting article : Designs for remote calls in Ajax

To go to the deep of subject :

SOAP

From the IBM side we can find the Call SOAP Web services with Ajax series

To call SOAP Web Services from Mozilla browsers like Firefox see Mozilla and Web Services and see also the O'Reilly article Using the Mozilla SOAP API

To call SOAP Web Services from Internet Explorer have a look to MDSN: Using the WebService Behavior

REST

To Call REST Web Services from Ajax see Brad Neuberg : How to Invoke Web Services From a Web Page On A Different Host

From AjaxPatterns.org have a look to the WIKI entry: RESTful Service

and finally

get a concrete example with a try on [this example!] and read the very good accompanying article of CodeProject named GeoLocation using REST, AJAX and Yahoo! for use with Google Maps


Final word: DO NOT hesitate to do a research in all of the websites above for terms like SOAP, REST or Ajax because it has been changing so quickly till now that it will probably not stop at the time I have written this.