University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In
partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of
Science
Ling Chen
will defend his
thesis
Web Services Integration with SOAP Protocol
Abstract
With the increasing demands for business transactions and applications over the Internet and/or Intranet,
integrating web services from various web servers becomes highly desirable and crucial.
Since most web services deliver their services to users using HTTP which is a stateless protocol for
displaying information only, a more opened stander protocol is required to be used for data communication
and exchanging between web servers regardless their different operating systems, object models
or programming languages. SOAP provides a common mechanism for integrating
web services through HTTP or other Internet-standard protocol based on XML technology that enables any new or existing applications
to communicate with one another. However, the SOAP protocol is designed to make simple method call
and pass primary data types only, the lack of object support, passing database query result and service
registration affect the applicability of this protocol.
In this thesis, we made some modifications and changes to SOAP
to provide it with some additional service functionalities and capabilities,
such as object supporting and passing database query result sets.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001
Time: 10:00 AM
Place:
550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are
invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang