A full day seminar presented by Sang Shin, Sun Microsystems, Boston, MA. This workshop is being hosted by Dr. Yi-Ching Kao, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Overview

Web Services is considered to be the next important wave of technology to fuel electronic business, application integration, and business-to-business (B2B) interactions. Studies have already shown that implementing Web services architecture can reduce complexity and provide significant cost savings. With potential for cost reductions as standards mature, Web services products and technologies are now being assembled to create working solutions and to establish new business models. With Web services, applications expose their internal workflows and business processes in standard fashion. This is one major reason why Web services is considered a major enabler of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in which software components are exposed as services.

Topics

Topics 1. CONCEPTS, CHARACTERISTICS, AND TYPES OF WEB SERVICES This workshop will start with a quick introduction on fundamental concepts, characteristics, and types of Web services. 2. CORE WEB SERVICES STANDARDS Sang will explain core Web services standards such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). 3. DEVELOP, DEPLOY, AND ACCESS WEB SERVICES Attendees will also learn how to develop, deploy, and access Web services using standard Java APIs, especially with JAX-RPC (Java API for Remote Procedure Call) over J2EE platform. The topics in the area include SOAP message handlers and document style messaging. Whenever possible, code samples are shown and demonstrated. 4. ebXML AND UBL The ebXML (electronic business XML) and UBL (Universal Business Language) standards, which together define the next generation framework for the global electronic marketplace, will be discussed. 5. WEB SERVICES SECURITY AND INTEROPERABILITY Technical issues such as Web services security and interoperability will be explored. 6. ONGOING WEB SERVICES STANDARDS Ongoing Web services standard activities by W3C or OASIS will be explained.

About the speaker

Sang Shin is a Java Technology Evangelist and Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has developed and delivered numerous talks on J2EE, EJB, JMS, J2ME, Web application frameworks and Web services technologies to worldwide developer audiences. Sang, who has taught Java courses ("XML", "Web Services Programming", "Distributed Programming using Jini Technology") at Brandeis University, is currently teaching a free "J2EE programming with Passion!" online course (javapassion.com) to several thousand worldwide Java developers.

Who should Attend?

This workshop is primarily intended for those who would like to understand what Web services technology is and why it is touted as a great enabler for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Anybody who has some computing technology background should be able to attend the first part of the workshop. Developers who want to build and deploy Web services using Java technology will benefit from the second part of the workshop.

Coordinator

This technology event is being coordinated by Dr. Yi-Ching Kao, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This workshop is primarily intended for those who would like to understand what Web services technology is and why it is touted as a great enabler for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Anybody who has some computing technology background should be able to attend the first part of the workshop. Developers who want to build and deploy Web services using Java technology will benefit from the second part of the workshop. Coordinator This technology event is being coordinated by Dr. Yi-Ching Kao, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.