XML and Web Services Curriculum

ASERT has a range of Internet & WEB courses. If you don't see what you are after, please contact us to discuss your training needs. Our courseware is very modular, so we can often put together something which meets your needs.

XM130/XM131: XML Overview Seminar/Workshop (1/2 day / 1 day)

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a standardised and increasingly accepted format which can be used for describing, manipulating, storing and displaying structured information. This overview covers the essential information you need to know to understand this important emerging technology area. It describes the technology, how it is being used, and the on-going standardisation activities surrounding XML. It also gives practical steps and ideas for getting started with XML and using it within your projects. The workshop uses a number of small exercises and demo applications to reinforce the theoretical material covered in the presentations.

WS130: Web Services Overview Seminar (1/2 day)

The first wave of the Internet delivered information to people. The second wave, being accelerated through the use of Web Services, delivers information to systems and opens up new ways of transacting business processes and delivering business services. This overview looks at the fundamental web service technologies supporting this second wave of the Internet, discusses some of the issues which adopters of these technologies are facing and examines the myriad of emerging technologies and standards which may play important roles in future web service based systems.

Core technologies discussed include: SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol; WSDL, the Web Service Description Language; and UDDI, the Universal Description Discovery and Integration system. We also examine the emerging technologies proposed to support security, transactions, notifications/events, reliable messaging and managing resources.

WS131: Web Services Workshop (2 days)

SOAP, Web Service descriptions (WSDLs) and UDDI are the core technologies that underlie the next generation of middleware infrastructure supported by Microsoft's .NET, the J2EE world including IBM, Sun, BEA, Oracle, HP and others, and the various players and technologies from the open source community. The detail of this part of the course covers SOAP which provides a simple and lightweight mechanism for exchanging structured and typed information between peers in a distributed, decentralised computing environment using XML messages.

XM201: XML for Developers (2 days)

This course presents an overview of XML (the World-Wide Web Consortium's eXtensible Markup Language). XML is viewed as a key technology that is pushing the Internet 'forward' and enhancing its capacity to support e-commerce and foster a viable on-line marketplace. XML is not just about the Internet however, it has many applications in the wider business arena and is being touted as the standard infrastructure underlying next-generation middleware systems known as Web Services. XML is also strongly supported by organizations such as IBM, BEA, Sun, Oracle, Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Macromedia and Adobe and is finding its way into many of these organisations products and enterprise solutions. For example, Microsoft has incorporated support for XML into Internet Explorer, its Office product suites and throughout its .NET infrastructure and server offerings. Various J2EE products and standards extensively overlap with the XML world. Content Management systems also typically offer varying degree of XML support.

XM211: XML for Developers & Web Services (3 days)

XML is viewed as a key technology that is pushing the Internet 'forward' and enhancing its capacity to support e-commerce and foster a viable on-line marketplace. It is being touted as the standard infrastructure underlying next-generation middleware systems known as Web Services. XML is also strongly supported by many organizations and is finding its way into many of their products and enterprise solutions. Various J2EE products and standards extensively overlap with the XML world.

XML-based technologies, ie: SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol; WebServices; and UDDI, the Universal Description Discovery and Integration System are new technologies that are fated to become ever more important as they slowly assume the role of underpinning major initiatives such as Micorsoft's .NET and grow to provide the foundation for much of what Oracle, Sun, IBM, HP and the various members of the open source community are intending to provide for the next iteration of the Internet.