168493 Special Topics in Computer Engineering II

                                 XML and Web Services, Semester II/2546

           

Course Description

Course 168493 provides basic introduction to eXtensible Markup Language (XML), the core XML technologies, and the important Web service standards that are based on XML.   These standards include Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI).     The course has a group project in which you will build a Web service.   Using the course project, you will be able to understand and actually implement your own Web service and interact with the Web services of others.

 

Teaching Staff

Instructor:  Kanda Runapongsa

Office hours:  Thursday and Friday: 11:00-12:00

 

Lecture Time and Place

Lectures:  Thursday and Friday: 14:00-15:30  

Place:        Computer Engineering Building, room 4210

 

 

Prerequisites

·        178230 Advanced Computer Programming

·        178231 Data Structures and Algorithms

 

Resources

·        HTML: http://gear.kku.ac.th/~krunapon/168493

·        Course Mailing List:  To subscribe to the course mailing list, please send an email to krunapon@kku.ac.th with the word “subscribe 168493” in the subject line.    All students must subscribe to the course mailing list.   It is your responsibility to ensure that you are on the mailing list so that you do not miss important announcements from the teaching staff.

   

     Evaluation and Grading 

Exam 1:   Midterm exam -  3 hours	15%
Exam 2:   Final  exam  - 3 hours	15%
Quizzes:  Two 30 minutes in-class quizzes	10% total
Class attendance	5%
Group Assignments:  group investigation and presentation	15% total
Group Project:  The group project involves developing a Web service	40%
Class participation and enthusiasm in developing the class project	Extra 10%

 

Letter grades and cut-off value

A:  90%   B+:  85%   B: 80%    C+:75% C: 70%   D+: 65%   D: 60%

Jan 8	Introduction to Web Service
Jan 9	JWSDP/Apache Axis Tutorial
Jan 12	Hand in a project preliminary report
Jan 15	JWSDP/Apache Axis Tutorial
Jan 16	SOAP
Jan 22	WSDL and UDDI
Jan 29	Quiz2 (5%)
Jan 30	JAX-RPC and  JAXR
Jan 31	JAXM and SAAJ
Feb 2	Hand in a project progress report
Feb 5	Web Services Security
Feb 6	ebXML/WML
Feb 6	Give Assignment 3
Feb 9	Hand in Assignment 3 (5%)
Feb 12	Group presentation
Feb 13	Group presentation/review
Feb 16	Hand in a final report
Feb 17-20	Final exam (15%)

Project grade (40%)

-         Project preliminary report (5%)

-         Project progress report (5%)

-         Group presentation (5%),

-         Project final report  (Thai version) (10%)

-     Project final report (English version) (4%)  - Extra credit

-    Setting Web servers (1%)  - Extra credit

-         Project demo and completion (15%)

o       Work on local host with sufficient utility (with SOAP messages, WSDL files generated and the UDDI registration) (13%)

o      The Web service can call other web services (2%)

o       Data can be updated and maintained easily (1%)

 

Assignment 3 (5%) is a programming assignment written in each individual favorite language.  If one participates in the development of the project, one should able to do this assignment