This theme concentrates on the media hyped technology of Web Services. Leveraging resources, material and discussions from the Software Engineering Track of the 2004 CERN School of Computing it attempts to shed more light on a fairly recent technology by explaining the fundamental concepts, describing the enabling technologies and actually developing a small application in Class!

The lectures will cover topics like writing a Service Consumer and a Service Provider, deployment techniques, dynamic location of Web Services and security for Web Services. The whole theme aims to maintain a good balance between theoretical knowledge and practical skills using state of the art software engineering tools and methodologies.

The whole theme will conclude with some advanced issues, current research topics in the area and hint at the future of the technology

Friday 25 February

Lecture 1

Introduction to Web Services

Ioannis Baltopoulos

Lecture 2

Consuming, Providing & Publishing Web Services
 

Ioannis Baltopoulos

Lecture 3

Advanced Issues & Future Trends

Lunch