Course example

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Course example Distributed Computing using XML
and Web Services

• Swamynathan.S
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
• College of Engineering
• Anna University
• Chennai

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Course offered to ..

• B.E (CSE)
• B.Tech(I.T)
• MCA
• M.E (CSE, S/W Engg.)
• M.Tech (IT)

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Need for the course

• Modern technologies
• Current trend in software practices
• XML based open standards
• Extending the enterprises
• Rapid application development
• More demand

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Course objectives

• Enrich the knowledge of the student community
• To offer this course for B.E/B.Tech, M.C.A and
  M.E/M.Tech students
• Carry out short term and long term projects
• To train the trainers in this area and to share
  or discuss evolving trends using
  workshops/seniors
• To focus specifically on a research area

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Justification for the course

• Acquired subject knowledge
• OO Programming knowledge (C, Java)
• Visual Programming (VB, VC)
• Component Based Technology (COM, DCOM)
• C and .NET
• Offered to MCA students (120)

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Course content

• XML Technology family
• Architecting Web Services
• Web services building block
• Implementing XML in e-Business
• XML and Content Management
• Independent of technology

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XML Technology family

• Structure and data typing
• (DTD, XML schema)
• Program manipulation technologies
• DOM, SAX
• XML manipulation technologies
• XSLT, XPath, XLink, Xquery
• Presentation Technologies
• CSS, XSL, XHTML, XForms, VoiceXML
• Semantic Web
• RDF

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Architecting Web Services

• Business motivation
• B2B, B2C, enterprise computing, need for web
  services
• Technical motivation
• COM, CORBA, EJB standards limitations
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Architecting web services
• Composition of web services
• From application server to peer to peer

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Web services building block

• SOAP
• Transport protocols for web services
• messaging with web services
• WSDL
• describing web services
• Anatomy and manipulation
• web service policy
• UDDI
• Discovering web services
• Anatomy, web service inspection and Ad-Hoc
  Discovery

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Implementing XML in e-Business

• B2B interaction types
• Components of e-business XML system
• ebXML and RosettaNet
• XML applications in vertical/horizontal industry
• Web services for mobile devices

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XML and Content Management

• Semantic Web
• Role of Meta data in web content
• Resource Description Framework
• RDF schema
• Architecture of semantic web
• Workflow
• XLANG, WSFL, BPEL4WS
• XML security

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Microsoft Support

• Academic Resource Kit for .NET technology
• Academic Instructor Resources
• Microsoft download center
• Microsoft learning resources
• Microsoft XML development center
• Microsoft Web services development center

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Microsoft support

• Project fund
• Encouraging Student level research projects as
  part of their curriculum
• Faculty research project proposals
• Short term and long term
• Workshops and seminars
• Travel grand

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Pros and Cons

• Pros
• Required technology under one roof
• Making the learning curve easier
• Rapid application development
• Support to legacy system
• Interoperability
• Security
• Cons
• ???

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Suggestions for new courses

• Innovative courses
• Job opportunity
• Market potential
• Social impact
• Academic and technical support
• Curriculum pre requisite
• funding

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Course outcomes

• Technology awareness
• Campus placements
• One day / short term workshops
• Training the trainers
• Student level mini projects
• Faculty research directions
• Web services (reactive, grid, mobile)
• Published papers in international
  conference/journals

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Student projects

• Cross enterprise workflow
• Cooperative web services
• Semantic web services
• Reactive web services
• Web service transaction
• Web service security

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Students feedback

• Very good response for the course and all the
  students (MCA) have enrolled
• Placement and final semester project in companies
  based on the course
• Variety of technology (good/bad)
• Implementation and class room discussion
• Limitations in using resources (s/w installation,
  configuration, system requirements)

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Future of this course

• From elective to core subject in the curriculum
• Included in Anna University syllabus (255
  Engineering colleges)
• Will be offered in all affiliated colleges
• Innovative project ideas
• Refining the content and curriculum

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Thanks

• Microsoft
• Rao Remala
• Sivaprasad Padichetty (Alumnus)
• Arasu Elangovan (Alumnus)
• Somasegar (Alumnus)
• P Anandan
• Guru Datta Venkatarama
• John Nordlinger
• Tom Healy
• Mythreyee Ganapathy
• Other alumni