SOA and Web Services

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• situate the components of the Web services technology in J2EE
• evaluate the most important application areas of Web services and identify their functions in their organisation's processes.

Who Should Attend
Analysts, application developers, database administrators or project leaders wanting to know the importance of Web services.
Prerequisites
A general knowledge of XML and the Internet.
Duration
1 day
Course Code
SOAW
Contents
Introduction
What are Web services: use, standards, components; Web services models (document vs object oriented, synchronous vs asynchronous); Advantages and disadvantages; use in different architectures (B2B, B2M2B, B2E, C2B, ...).


Implementation and recalling of Web services
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) versus XML-RPC versus eb-XML messaging; BTP (Business Transaction Protocol) or how to implement Web services transactions.


Registration of Web services
WSDL (Web Services Description Language): description of Web services; UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) - the Web services directory - private versus public directories - types; WSIL (Web Services Inspection Language): detection of Web services WSIF (Web Services Invocation Framework).


Web Services and Application Integration
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and Web services (Java Connector Architecture, RDBMS access, ...); Security, transaction and coordination aspects; Web Services Flow Language (WSFL).