WEB SERVICES (one-day, demo)
Instructor: Constantine Kaniklidis

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These technical briefings are concise, technically-oriented, fast-path overviews covering the essentials of various strategic technologies. They may be used as a first intensive look at the topic or as a quick refresher/review and update on the current state of the art. Practical examples, demos, and extensive case studies are used to further enrich the registrant's appreciation. Together they provide comprehensive career survival training for the current and future technology marketplace.

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Introducing Web Services
        Understanding Service-Oriented Architectures
        Web Services Exposed: Basic Characteristics
        The Benefits of the Web Services Paradigm
        Misunderstanding Web Services:  Myths and Hype

Web Services Technology
        The Architecture of Web Services
        The XML Core
        SOAP
        UDDI
        WSDL
        The Role of ebXML

Web Services Development and Deployment
        How Web Services are Built
        Web Services Tools and Toolkits
        Web Services and J2EE
        Web Services and the .NET Framework
        Web Services Pitfalls

Challenges: Security, Transactional Support and Other Issues
        The Major Limitations of Web Services
        What Needs to be Improved
        The Question of Maturity: Are Web Services Enterprise Ready?
        Grading Web Services: An Interim Report Card circa 2003TCP/IP