FIT5030 - Web services and service oriented computing

Leader(s): Shonali Krishnaswamy

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit focuses on the Service Oriented Computing paradigm and web services technology. Students will be exposed to the motivations that led to the emergence of web services from middleware and Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI). The unit will introduce the fundamental concepts of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), web services and the key standards that underpin web services: SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. The unit will evaluate and compare various service discovery protocols. The unit will provide students with skills to program and deploy web services as well as to access and consume/use web services.

Objectives

At the successful completion of this subject students will:

1. have knowledge of the Service Oriented Computing paradigm, its evolution and the emergence of web services;
2. understand the Service Oriented Architectures and the various key standards that enable the realization of web services such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI;
3. compare and evaluate various Service Discovery Protocols;
4. have the skills to build and deploy web services using a range of current technologies;
5. be able to access, invoke and use publicly available web services in application development (e.g. Google Web Service);
6. have an understanding on emerging issues, trends and topics in web services research

Assessment

Assignments: 60 %, Examination: 40 %

Contact hours

2 hours lectures/week, 2 hours tutorials/week

Prerequisites

For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037.
Recommended knowledge: Students undertaking this subject are expected to have a sound understanding of the concepts of an object oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Eiffel.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit5030/