FIT3060 Service oriented computing

This unit investigates some of the latest developments in the field of web applications. Known as Web Services, they make use of a number of standards to allow business to business(B2B) systems over the world wide web. Resoving these problems comes under the broad title of interoperability. A number of technologies and standards allow Web services to be employed. These include XML for desription of Web services, SOAP as the protocol to send messages, WSDL to describe the operations offered by a Web Service, BPEL to co-ordinate a number of Web Services in complex synchronous and/or asynchronous interactions, and UDDI as registry to allow discovery and publication of Web Services.

Teaching

• 2 hour lecture per week
• 2 hour laboratory session per week

Assessment

• Exam 50%
• Assignments 50%

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

FIT2024

Corequisites

None

Prohibitions

None