Tentative weekly course schedule

Week 1

• organizational matters
  
• overview
• introduction to computing with services (ch 1)
  
• SOA versus programmable web
  
• connecting to and combining existing services: in-class demo
  

Week 2

• principles of service-oriented computing (ch 5)
  
• connecting to and combining existing services: in-class demo (continued)

Week 3

• programming web services (ch 3)
• resource-oriented (REST) services (Restlet book ch 4)
• project discussion

Week 4

• project 2b discussion
• test 1

Week 5

• enterprise architectures (ch 4)
• basic standards for web services (ch 2)
• resource-oriented (REST) and process/flow-oriented (SOAP) views of services (Restlet book ch 4  and ch 10)
• project 2b discussion (as needed)

Week 6

• restful services
• project 2b discussion

Week 7

• WS-* standards
• stateful services
• SOAP
• test 2

Week 8

• SOAP
• Apache CXF framework
• project 2c discussion

Week 9

• project 2c discussion
• message-based integration

Week 10

• message-based integration
• project 3 discussion

Week 11

• message-based integration
• project 3 discussion
• test 3

Week 12

• semantic web

Week 13

• semantic web