5 Day Instructor Led Course – 35 Contact Hours

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Course Outline
1 Web Services Overview
What is a Web Service?
– Business Perspective
– Technical Perspective
The Web Service Opportunity
– Enterprise Application Integration
– B2B
Trends in e-business
Why Do We Need a Web Services Approach?
– Scoping the Problem
– Core Technologies
– Industry Dynamics
Service-Oriented Architectures
Web Services Interoperability Stacks
– The Wire Stack
– The Description Stack
– The Discovery Stack
– Putting Together the Interoperability Stacks

2 XML Primer
Origins of XML
Document-Versus Data-Centric XML
– Document-Centric XML
– Data-Centric XML
– Document Lifetime
XML Instances
– Document Prolog
– Elements
– Attributes
– Character Data
– A Simpler Purchase Order
XML Namespaces
– Namespace Mechanism
– Namespace Syntax
– Namespace-Prefixed Attributes
Document Type Definitions
– Well-Formedness and Validity
– Document Structure
– Are DTDs Enough?
XML Schemas
– XML Schema Basics
– Associating Schemas with Documents
– Simple Types
– Complex types
– The Purchase Order Schema
– Basic Schema Reusability
– Advanced Schema Reusability
– There’s More
Processing XML
– Basic Operation
– Data-Oriented XML Processing
– SAX-based check Invoice
– DOM-based check Invoice
– Testing the Code

3 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Evolution of XML Protocols
– First-Generation XML Protocols
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
– The Making of SOAP
– What Should SOAP Do?
– What is SOAP, Really?
Doing Business with Skates Town
– Interacting with the Inventory System
Inventory Check Web Service
– Choosing a Web Service Engine
– Service Provider View
– Service Requestor View
– Putting the Service to the Test
– SOAP on the Wire
SOAP Envelope Framework
– SOAP Envelope
– SOAP Versioning
– SOAP Headers
– SOAP Body
Taking Advantage of SOAP Extensibility
– Service Requestor View
– Service Provider View
– Putting the Service to the Test
– Soap on the Wire
Soap Intermediaries
– The Need for Intermediaries
– Intermediaries in SOAP
– Putting It All Together
Error Handling in SOAP
– Soap Message Processing
SOAP Data Encoding
– Specifying Different Encodings
– SOAP Data Encoding Rules
– Choosing a Data Encoding

Architecting Distributed Systems with Web Services
– Messaging
– Messaging Versus RPC
– SOAP-based RPCs
Purchase Order Submission Web Service
– Purchase Order and Invoice Schemas
– Service Requestor View
– Service Provider View
– Putting the Service to the Test
– SOAP on the wire
SOAP Protocol Bindings
– General Considerations
– HTTP/S
– SOAP Messages with Attachments
– SOAP Over SMTP
– Other Protocols

4 Creating Web Services
Why and what is Axis?
The Axis Architecture
– Axis Components
– Locating the Service Chain
– XML Pursing
Installing Axis
Configuring Axis
– Configuration Methods
Security
Simple Web Services
Client-Side Programming
Advanced Web Service Deployment
Document-Centric Services
Data Encoding/Decoding
Building Handlers
Specialized Pivot Point Handlers, a.k.a. Providers
Faults
Message Patterns
Building and Deploying an Intermediary
SOAP V1.2
Monitoring

5 Using SOAP for e-Business 233
Web Services Security
– Example Scenario
– SSL and HTTP Basic Authentication
– Digital Signature
– XML Encryption
– Notary Service
– Authorization
– Security Assertions
– Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management
– How to Get Started With Security
Enterprise Application Integration
– SOAP Server Based on J2EE
– Transaction Processing
– ACID and Two-Phase Commit
– Reliable Messaging
– J2EE Security Model
Quality of Service
– Enterprise SOAP Server
– High Availability
– System Management
– Enterprise Security

6 Describing Web Services
Why Service Descriptions?
Role of Service Description in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Well Defined Service
– Functional Description
– Non-functional Description
– Aggregation/Orchestration Description
– Stack Summary
History of IDLS
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL)
– WSDL Information Model
– Elements of the WSDL Language
– Port Type
– Operation
– Message
– Binding
– Port
– Service
– Definitions
– Documentation
– Conventional Use of the Import Element
– WSDL Extension Mechanism
WSDL and Java
– Deriving code from WSDL
– Deriving WSDL from Code
Future Service Description Efforts
– Web Services Endpoint Language (WSEL)
– Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)

7 Discovering Web Services
The Role of Service Discovery
The Role of Registries
– Service Discovery at Design Time and runtime
– Multiple Mechanisms of Service Discovery
– Scenario Updates
UDDI
– The UDDI Usage Model
– The UDDI Model Concept
– Publishing Business Information to a UDDI Registry
– Publishing Service Information to a UDDI Registry
– Finding Information in a UDDI Registry
– Getting Business and Service Details from a UDDI Registry
– Summarizing UDDI Version 1.o
Private UDDI Registries
– Why would a company Host a Private UDDI Registry?
– Five Types of Private UDDI
What’s New in UDDI Version 2.0?
– Overview of Changes in UDDI V2.0
– Third-Party Taxonomies
– Modeling Relationships between Business Entity Entries
– Changes to the Inquiry API
– Changes to the Publication API
– Miscellaneous Changes
Using WSDL with UDDI
– Saving a UDDI business Service based on WSDL
– More Complex WSDL and Corresponding UDDI Entries
– Putting It All Together: WSDL-Based UDDI and Dynamic Find

8 Interoperability, Tools, and Middleware Products
Interoperability: The “Holy Grail” of Web Services
– The Soapbuilders Community
– The Interoperability Lab
– The W3C: The Emergence of a Standardized SOAP
The Larger Web Services Landscape
– Who’s Building SOAP Systems?
– Other Languages and Environments
– SOAP: Lite-Web Services in Perl
– The .NET Web Service World: A Brief Primer
– GLUE: Another Take on Java Web Services

9 Future Concepts
Computing as a Utility
– Web Services Everywhere: The Vision
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
– Resource Description Framework
– Ontologies
– Relating RDF to Web Services
Software Agents
– Relating Software Agents to Web Services
Peer-to-Peer Computing
– Relating Peer Computing to Web Services
Grid Computing
– Relating Grid Computing to Web Services
Embedded Web Services
Pulling It All Together
Resources