Lectures for web services for Distributed systems.

April 9. Web Services Overview. Core concepts and an example.

Primary Reading: An Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and its Specifications., Curbera, Kurt and Box. 2004.

April 11. XML Schemas, WSDL 2.0 and SOAP

Suggested Reading: Using W3C XML Schema, Eric van der Vlist

Suggested Reading: WSDL 2.0 primer.

April 16. WS-Standards part 1. Ws-Addressing, ws-security, ws-eventing

Primary Reading: The Next Step in Web Services Curbera, Khalaf, Mukhi, Tai and Weerawarana, CACM Oct 2003.

Suggested Reading: An Introduction to WS-Addressing. Beth Linker

Suggested Reading: WS-Eventing for Dummies. A simple overview of ws-eventing. part II.

April 18. WS-Stardards part 2. WS-Policy, WS-reliable messaging, BPEL.

Suggested Readings: Web Services Policy 1.2 – Framework (WS-Policy)

Suggested Readings: Understanding WS-Policy

Suggested Readings: An Introduction to Web Services Reliable Messaging. Paul Fremantle