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Chair: Eve Mayler
Speakers: Tony Coates, Marc
Hadley, John Kemp
Web services technology is the most recent attempt to develop a
distributed computing stack that allows application interactions
to reach beyond a single enterprise. Service-oriented architecture,
or SOA, is the broader framework of technology choices and best
practices that strives to achieve true loose coupling of software.
With XML in the picture as an enabling technology, it is hoped that
such endeavours will finally succeed. What is the vision being touted
by platform vendors, and what is the gap between the hype and the
reality? Learn how to navigate through the thicket of standards
and specifications from W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and elsewhere, and hear
how to use basic and advanced web services technologies to best
advantage, based on experience with real-world applications.
Topics covered:
- The web services proposition - This session will
provide an overview of the benefits that a web services-based
approach can provide, along with the basic XML and Java
API standards governing web service interactions.
- Securing and identity-enabling your web services -
The particular challenges and opportunities of securing
XML-encoded web service messages and their exchange, and
doing proper authorisation of client and service behaviour.
Which technologies are mature enough to be "safe"?
How are the big questions of identity and business trust
being answered?
- Schema design when the goal is loose coupling -
The design of message formats and protocols is a key skill
for a successful system. Since it can be more of an art
than a science, this session will examine real-world choices
in schema design and usage and provide advice for typical
situations.
- Mobile web services - Real-world scenarios demonstrating
powerful and interesting uses of web services in a setting
everyone can relate to.
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