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2. Middleware and Web Services
Understand the evolution of the architectures of distributed information systems as the basis to understand current web service technology. Introduction to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Learn about Extensible Markup Language (XML): a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable
Learn how to provide application logic as a service following the REST architectural style.
5. RESTful Web Services Tutorial
Follow a tutorial on how to develop a concrete RESTful web service.
6. "Big" Web Services: SOAP&WSDL
Learn the key ingredient of advanced Web services, i.e., the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Learn how to describe the external interface of Web services
A discussion about the specific characteristics of REST versus SOAP Web Services
Understand the problems and principles of developing composite Web services
9. Principles of Service-Oriented Architectures
Put everything into context and understand current types of SOAs