Web Services 101

by Jeff Tash

This introductory pre-conference seminar will provide attendees with a common vocabulary and a baseline level of understanding regarding the next big ascendant technology - Web Services.

Web Services are the transactional equivalent of the eyeball Web, but with program-to-program B2B interactions in place of program-to-browser B2C interactions. This presentation examines what’s hot, what’s not, what’s real, what’s hype, where the market’s heading, who the key players are, and how competitive offerings stack-up against one another - from vendors such as Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, Oracle, Sybase, BEA, and SAP, among others.

Web Services are software building blocks - a collection of functions or processing logic - packaged-up and published to the Internet for applications to use. Developers build applications by aggregating Web Services that orchestrate the flow of data within and across enterprise boundaries. Web Services use XML messaging to partition and integrate applications- enabling platform-neutral and environment-neutral interoperability. What makes the Web Services model so compelling is its set of industry-standard core infrastructure technologies for interoperability - XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI - which are independent of underlying programming languages, tools, hardware, or operating systems.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• the driving technological forces pushing the Internet to Web Services
• key enabling technologies
  • XML
  • SOAP
• Service Oriented Architecture
  • Roles
    • Service Provider
    • Service Requester
    • Service Broker
  • Operations
• Publish
• Find
• Bind
• WSDL - Web Services Description Language
• UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery & Integration
• Web Services & Business Processes
• Web Services & Integration
• Web Services & Standards
• Attendees receive a free complimentary IT Infrastructure Roadmap wall poster