====== Web Services ======

This lecture describes a vision in which programs written in different languages, running on different platforms, and connected via different network transports can discover one another and communicate. 


===== Outline =====

  * The Vision
  * SOA with publish-find-bind
  * Infrastructure: SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
  * Platforms, including SAAJ and Apache Axis
  * Consuming and Deploying services


===== To Do =====

  * Read Chapter 9.
  * Visir the xmethod site, look at some WSDL documents, and try a few services
  * Examine the wsdl of our First Web Service at: http://indigo.cse.yorku.ca:4413/axis/First.jws?wsdl
  * Examine the client that consumes this service in the //Resource Directory//. 
  * Examine the file ''First.jws'' which constitutes the server of the first service. 

===== Slides from Lecture =====

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