Web Services & Service-Oriented Architectures

Web Services & Service-Oriented Architectures
Certificate Program

Course Description and Prerequisites:

The course introduces the XML markup language and associated modeling techniques required to develop leading edge narrative-centric and data-centric documentation/data for a next generation enterprise solution. The student learns to design structured and transformational markup utilizing schema and stylesheets which flexibly augment the underlying XML document infrastructure for support of various user input device communication as well as non-human B2B exchange. Principles of XML use are reinforced by analysis of business process management work-flows employing web services and service-oriented architectures.

Some Java programming experience is required.

Topics include:

I. XML Technologies

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Document Type Definition (DTD)
XML Schema Definition Language (XSD)
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
XML Query Language (XQuery) and XML Path Language (XPath)

II. Web Services Technologies

WS Description Language (WSDL) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOA)
Univ Description, Discovery, Integration (UDDI) and 2nd-Gen WS (WS-*)
Web Services Case Studies: competitive analysis, auctions and shipping, billing and faxing, syndicated search, news aggregator, audio CD catalog, hot news sheet, automatic daily discussions
Technology Integration

III. Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE)a

Application Integration
Best Practices and Future Directions

Web Services & Service-Oriented Architectures Schedule

Information & Registration:
To register or for additional information contact us by phone or email
Chicago or Wheaton 630-682-6035
reif@iit.edu