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• Syllabus

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• CS Department academic integrity policy
• University academic integrity code
• University academic integrity policy

Lectures

• Introduction
• XML
• Webservices in Java, WSDL
• BPEL
• IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality, JMeter and Performance Testing, ESBs
• JBoss
• SOAP, REST
• SCA, Philly JUG Talk by Greg Pavlik
• 2010: An Acronym Odyssey by Brian O'Neill (Philly JUG Talk)
• UDDI
• XML Compression, Binary XML
• Performance Testing, SOA Modeling, QoS Issues
• Governance
• SOA Security

Assignments

• Read this report from CMU/SEI and prepare for class discussion.
• Download and install NetBeans and go through Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services
• Read 3, 6, and 7 from the reading list below. Supplement these with the corresponding material from the text.
• Read 8 from the reading list below, check out available services, and formulate a possible project description that involves building/using services to achieve a desired objective.

Project

Readings

1. Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
2. Service-Oriented Computing: State of the Art and Research Challenges
3. How BPEL and SOA Are Changing Web Services Development
4. Understanding quality of service for Web services
5. Discover SOAP encoding's impact on Web service performance
6. Which style of WSDL should I use?
7. BPEL and Java
8. Five case studies from IBM
9. Materials from SEI Workshop on Hard Problems in SOA
10. The role of an ESB in an SOA
11. A report evaluating SOA-related products from leading vendors

Useful links

• JavaWorld Article about SOA
• SUN SOA Video
• Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Tools
• NetBeans 6.0 download
• NetBeans Webservice  Example
• NetBeans SOA Examples
• BEA Systems SOA Resources
• W3Schools Tutorials
• CPN and CPNTools
• OPNET Technologies
• OPNET Tutorials
• Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios from W3C
• Hansen Book Website
• Erl Book Website
• W3C
• OASIS
• WS-I
• IETF
• Article about Implementing SOA with the Java EE 5 SDK
• W3C SOAP Primer
• A list of free Webservices
• The Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI)
• Amazon.com moving into new field: selling data center services
• The IEEE Congress on Services (2008)
• The IEEE Technical Committee on Service Computing
• How to publish and find WSDL service descriptions using UDDI
• Interacting with a UDDI server
• A UDDI Browser
• A free Web Services and SOA programming online course
• AFEI
• Service Modeling Language Specification
• Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) and SAWSDL4J
• Open SOA
• SOA Resources at TIBCO