Distribtued Object Computing

Distributed Object Computing (Web Services)

Department of Comptuer Science
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204

Distributed Object Computing has taken new meaning yet again. There is quite some excitement over the benefits of using XML Web Services. This course will introduce the students to .NET environment, provide a very quick overview of C# and focus indepth on the concepts of Web Services using .NET and also on how to interact with the Java based Web Services.

Topics:

.NET infrastructure and Common Language Runtime
Overview of C#
XML and XML Schema definitions
What are web services
Writing web services
Web Services architecture
WSDL, UDDI
Asynchronous calls
Web Services Security, Routing
.NET Remoting
Interacting with Java Web Services
Service Oriented Architecture
Tenets of SOA
Future directions

Prerequisite for this course: COSC 4319 "Distributed Object Computing..." requires strong programming knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming in C++ or Java. You must have written several programs in C++/Java using Inheritance, Polymorphism (virtual functions). This course will not teach C++ or Java and is not intended to teach C# either. COSC 1320 does (C++) that.

Required text: None
Recommended text:

.NET Web Services : Architecture and Implementation, Ballinger, Keith, Addison-Wesley

Professional C#: 2nd Edition Authors:Simon Robinson Karli Watson Burton Harvey Jay Glynn Christian Nagel Morgan Skinner Ollie Cornes Zach Greenvoss Scott K. Allen K. Scott Allen Publisher: Wrox Press, Inc.