Web Services - Wednesday 28th July

Chair - Eve Maler

Web services technology is the most recent attempt to develop a distributed computing stack that allows application interactions to reach beyond a single enterprise. XML is the new ingredient that, it is hoped, will finally bring wide success to this endeavour. What is the vision of web services being touted by platform vendors, and what is the gap between the hype and the reality? Learn how to navigate your way through the thicket of web services standards and specifications from W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and elsewhere, and hear how web services technologies such as SOAP and WSDL can be used to best advantage, based on experience with real-world applications.

Topics covered:

  • The web services proposition - 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 authorization of client and service behavior. Which technologies are mature enough to be "safe"? How are the big questions of identity and business trust being answered?

  • Business web services - The use cases for offering high quality of service and sophisticated business process orchestration. Also an exploration of solutions such as ebXML and UBL that are being used to ease the modernisation path from traditional EDI to robust B2B web services.

  • Mobile web services - Real-world scenarios demonstrating powerful and interesting uses of web services in a setting everyone can relate to.

Cost:
The cost of this one day seminar is £195 + VAT, or you can select the Full XML Summer School Package for £995 + VAT and attend all seminars of your choice.

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Sponsored by:
BT
OASIS
Sun Microsystems
XMLUK.org
 
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