Workshops

Workshop 1

(After Web Services Background)

• Internet
• WWW Architecture
• WWW Page Preparation
• Perl
• Java
• Enterprise Systems
• Eclipse
• Web Services

• Introduction to Distributed Systems
• Developing Distributed Applications in Java
• Kernels, Process, and Threads
• Interprocess communication (IPC)
• Networking in Java
• Concurrency Control
• Distributed Objects and Object-based Systems
• Web Services
• Distributed Security and Java Security
• Distributed File Systems
• Distributed Databases and the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API
• Transaction Management
• Message-passing Systems

• Introduction
  Threads
• Architecture
  TCP/IP Sockets
  IPv6
• Protocol design
• State transitions
  Half Object Plus Protocol
  Structured data
• General security
  Java Security
• HTTP
  HTTP and Java
• Remote Procedure Call
  Web Services
• CORBA
• RMI
  Jeri
• Multiple middleware on common problem
  Jini
• JMS
  JXTA
• Mobile agents
  Grid computing

Questions:

• Should a course teach technical skills, underlying concepts, or try to teach fundamental concepts illustrated by skills? Or what?
• How much (if any) of the following concepts/topics should be taught in a web services course?
  • ISO protocol stack?
  • Ethernet, IP and TCP packet structure?
  • Distributed computing models such as client-server, peer-to-peer?
  • What is middleware and its characteristics?
  • Failure points in networks?
  • Transparency factors such as access, location, migration, replication, concurrency, scalability, performance, failure transparency?
• Where do web services fit in the Gartner classification?
  

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Workshop 2

After WSDL

• An important aspect of Service Oriented Architecture is separation of specification from implementation. Why is this important?
• Which is more important in which situation?
• How important should multiple language implementations be in a student environment? Does this affect your views on implementation first or specification first?

Workshop 3

After SOAP

• To what extent should students need to know the details of SOAP?
• How much XML should be required or taught in a web services course?
• Should students know about serialisation issues in general e.g. serialisation of strings, arrays, tables and objects?
• Is a knowledge of network performance needed?

Workshop 4

After Security

ISO Protocol

ISO Security - Functions and Levels

• Peer entity authentication (3, 4, 7)
• Data origin authentication (3, 4, 7)
• Access control service (3, 4, 7)
• Connection confidentiality (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
• Connectionless confidentiality (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
• Selective field confidentiality (6, 7)
• Traffic flow confidentiality (1, 3, 7)
• Connection integrity with recovery (4, 7)
• Connection integrity without recovery (4, 7)
• Connection integrity selective field (7)
• Connectionless integrity selective field (7)
• Non-repudiation at origin (7)
• Non-repudiation of receipt (7)

Web services security works at which of these ISO cases?

Workshop 5

After Computer Science and Web Services

General curriculum discussion