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

Tentative project roadmap

• connecting to and combining existing services: details TBA
• implementing resource-based services: Restlet.org
  
• implementing process-based (flow-based) services: Apache CXF
  
• message-based service integration: Apache Camel
  
• (time permitting) implementing agent-based and semantic web services: JADE, Jena
  

Tentative weekly course schedule

Week 1

• organizational matters
  
• overview

Week 2

• distributed information systems

Week 3

• middleware

Week 4

• enterprise application integration
• web technologies

Week 5

• quiz 1 (after the lecture)
  
• web services
• basic web services technology

Week 6

• basic web services technology

Week 7

• service composition

Week 8

• quiz 2 (after the lecture)
• service coordination

Week 9

• service composition using representational state transfer (REST)

Week 10

• service composition using representational state transfer (REST)

Week 11

• quiz 3 (after the lecture)
• enterprise integration using asynchronous messaging
  

Week 12

• enterprise integration using asynchronous messaging

Week 13

• outlook
  

Course objectives

The overall objective of this course is an understanding of service-oriented computing as an architectural approach for loosely-coupled distributed applications. Specific objectives include an understanding of

• resource-, process-, and agent-based views of services
• the implementation of service-based applications through service composition, coordination, and description
  
• the use of service-based applications through service selection, engagement, and evaluation

Organizational matters

• introduction
• contact info
• office hours
  
• discussion group
• prerequisites
• grading criteria
• textbooks