CSIT600c: Web Services Programming
for MSc(IT) Fall 2005

• Course Paper:  Detail Instructions.  Pls remember to submit in the IEEE format.
  • Topic and draft abstract - any time starting from now
  • Abstract and paper outline submission for feedback (not for grading) - around Oct 24
  • Draft paper for comment - before Dec 1
  • Final paper due: Dec 6 23:59 HKT
• No programming assignment for this course. Program code are written in J2EE version 1.4.
• If you don't receive feedback from me in 48 hours, please send me a reminder.
• Good papers need not be totally novel: you may consider working on details and extensions of our paper (because our papers are novel!).

Objectives

• To provide a conceptual overview on contemporary Web Services technologies
• To provide hands-on and programming opportunities on selected features of this technologies
• To provide basic skills of reading and writing "IT" papers.
• To provide a basis for undertaking further courses or self-learning in related and/or more specific areas

Course Description 

The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. Today the Web is the main means by which companies and organizations are carrying on their business. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services, which has been standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and are now widely supported by major vendors and users. A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable application-to-application interaction over Internet. In this one-credit topic course, we shall cover the basis of Web services including (i) Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), (ii) Web Service Description Language (WSDL), (iii) Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) registries in the context of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). If time permits, we shall also introduce the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) for business interaction and system integration. Emphases will be on practice applications. We shall use the Java 2 Enterprise Edition to illustrate typical techniques involved in mainstream programming environments for developing Web services application. We shall also discuss with recent case studies on how contemporary service infrastructures are built with Web services.

CSIT600c Course Information

• Venue: Saturday 3:00pm - 5:50pm at Rm 2464 (Lift 25-26)

• Course Page: http://teaching.ust.hk/~csit600c

• Newsgroup:  hkust.csit.class.600 (Access through SSL)

• Support / Consultation Logistics: first try newsgroup, then tutor, then lecturer

Lecturer

• Dr. Dickson K.W. CHIU (Ph.D., HKUST, SMIEEE) http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu

• email: dicksonchiu@ieee.org(24 x 7!) 

• Phone Consultation:  Leave your phone number and question by email, and I'll call back.

TA: Miss Cherrie NG (MSc, HKUST) (email: cscherrie@gmail.com)

References:

• [J2EE] J2EE Tutorial (includes servlet and XML API, online and downloadable tutorial), Sun Microsystem Inc. 

• [DW] Deitel et al., Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers, Prentice Hall, 2002. 

• [DX] Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, XML: How To Program, Prentice Hall 2001.

• (To learn Java quickly or in depth, you may also use Dietel's Java: How to Program.) 

Evaluation: individual course paper 90%, class participation 10%  - no exam :-)

Course Schedule 

• Lecture 1 (Sept 3 - 15:00 Sat)

• Introduction to XML - basics, intro, schema, DOM, Xpath, XSLT (.ppt) (XML Course CSIT600b) 

• Lecture 2 (Sept 10 - 15:00 Sat)

• Web Services Concepts and Technologies (.ppt) 

• Lecture 3 (Sept 17 - 15:00 Sat) 

• Writing an IT Paper (.ppt) 

• Workflow and BPEL4WS (.ppt) 

• Lecture 4 (Sept 24 - 15:00 Sat) 

• (Reference only) Java Web Services Programming Guide  (.ppt)

• Web Services Case Study (Web Wrapper) - WebXcript (paper)(ppt)

• Web Services Case Study (from human to program interface) - E-marketplace and E-negotiation (paper)(ppt)

• Lecture 5 (Oct 8 - 15:00 Sat) 

• Web Services Case Study (Beyond normal executions - events and exceptions)  - B2B Process Collaboration (paper)(ppt)

• Web Services Case Study (Extending Web services to mobile users) - 3-tier view-based m-service adaptation (paper)(ppt)

• Lecture 6 (Oct 15 - 15:00 Sat) 

• Web Services Case Study (Adapting processes to different business partners) - B2B interaction management: flows and process views (paper)(ppt)

• Web Services Case Study (Handling urgent processes / services) - Alert driven E-service management (paper1)(paper2)(ppt)

• Web Services Case Study (Inter- and intra-enterprise integration) - Financial Enterprise Content Management: integration and control (paper)(ppt)

• Summary and Outlook (.ppt)

Course Paper: Detail Instructions

My other papers for your reference: See particularly ICEC2005 and HICSS38.

Best Student Papers from Spring 2005 accepted for publication:

• Cherrie W.W. Ng and D.K.W. Chiu. e-Government Integration with Web Services and Alerts: A Case Study on an Emergency Route Advisory System in Hong Kong, 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS39), Jan 2006. (paper)

• Anthony C.Y. Lam and D.K.W. Chiu. Cooperative Brokerage Integration for Transaction Capacity Sharing: A Case Study in Hong Kong, HICSS39, Jan 2006. (paper)

• Gordon K.T. Lau, D.K.W. Chiu and P.C.K. Hung. Web-service Based Information Integration for Decision Support: A Case Study on e-Mortgage Contract Matchmaking Service, HICSS39, Jan 2006. (paper)

• Hing-Sum Chan, D.K.W. Chiu, P.C.K. Hung and H.F. Leung. Credibility Relationship Management in a Web Service Integration Environment, 4th ICIS Workshop on e-Business, Las Vegas, Dec 10, 2005. (draft)(review)

Outstanding Student Papers from Spring 2005 in progress for publication:

• Allen K.L. Lam and D.K.W. Chiu. Enhancing Availability of Information and Towards Freedom of News Distribution: Supporting Small-scale News Agencies with a Web-Service Infrastructure. (draft)(review)

• Frank K.W. Cheong, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and S.C. Cheung. Developing a Distributed e-Monitoring System for Website and Web Services: An Experience Report with Free Libraries and Tools. (draft)