This unit focuses on the Service Oriented Computing paradigm and web services technology. Students will be exposed to the motivations that led to the emergence of web services from middleware and Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI). The unit will introduce the fundamental concepts of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), web services and the key standards that underpin web services: SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. The unit will evaluate and compare various service discovery protocols. The unit will provide students with skills to program and deploy web services as well as to access and consume/use web services.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk
2-hour lecture
2-hour tutorial
2-4 hours study/working on assignment/completing tutorial exercises on your own.
CPE5009
Recommended knowledge: Students undertaking this unit are expected to have a sound understanding of the concepts of an object oriented concepts and programming languages. A sound knowledge of Java is preferred.
Shonali Krishnaswamy
Shonali Krishnaswamy
At the completion of this unit students will:
Unit Test (2 hours): 40%; Practical Assignments: 60%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Web Services Practical Assignment | 60% | Week 7 and Week 10 Submission of Phase 1 and 2 respectively. Demonstrations in Weeks 8 and 11 respectively. |
| Examination 1 | 40% | To be advised |
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Only pens and pencils are allowed. The test paper will have space for writing answers.
| Week | Date* | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 21/02/11 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | 28/02/11 | Introduction to Service Oriented Computing and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) | Refer Moodle Page |
| 2 | 07/03/11 | XML Refresher | |
| 3 | 14/03/11 | Web Services Standards - SOAP | |
| 4 | 21/03/11 | Web Services Standards - WSDL | |
| 5 | 28/03/11 | Web Services Standards - UDDI | |
| 6 | 04/04/11 | Web Services Composition, Orchestration and Mashups | |
| 7 | 11/04/11 | Web Services Metrics and Service Level Agreements | Submission of Phase 1 |
| 8 | 18/04/11 | Web Services Reliable Messaging | Demonstrations of practical |
| Mid semester break | |||
| 9 | 02/05/11 | Web Services Security | |
| 10 | 09/05/11 | Advanced Topics and Research Issues | Submission of Phase 2 |
| 11 | 16/05/11 | Revision and Discussion | Demonstrations of practical |
| 12 | 23/05/11 | Emerging Trends and Research Issues | Unit test in lecture |
| 30/05/11 | SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
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Reading List
1. Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications by Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno and Vijay Machiraju
2. SOA Using Java Web Services by Mark D. Hansen
3. Any other papers/resources provided in the lectures.