M.E. Computer Science & Engineering:Web Services

Semester I

Advanced Data Structures
Software Design and Construction
Research Methodology
Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
Advanced Computer Architecture

Semester II

Parallel and Distributed Computing
Advanced Database Systems
Soft Computing Neural Networks
Embedded Systems

Semester III

Seminar
Thesis (Starts)

Semester IV

Thesis (Continued)


Web Services

Understanding Web Services: Managing the web services specifications, key components, tools and vendors, advantages of web services, disadvantages and pitfalls of Web Services, comparison of web services and other technologies.

Web Services Architectures: Goals, SOA, Major components of the architecture � SOAP, XML, HTTP, Cookies, WSDL, XML schema, UDDI, Interactions between components.

Working with XML: Components of XML, Grammar rules, namespaces, schemas.

Web Services Communication: TCP/IP, HTTP, Message queues, SMTP, FTP, exchanging messages with SOAP, description of web services using WSDL, advertising a web services, registry, registry entries, creating private and semiprivate registries, UDDI architecture, types of discovery, attachments with web services.

Building Web Services: Creating web services with state-of-the-art tolls like Apache Axis, Java (J2EE), .NET, IBM Web sphere, creating web services clients, comparison of various web services tools.

Advanced Topics: Web service interoperability, security, and future of web services.

Laboratory work: Installing and configuring web servers, building and implementing Web services using the latest tools (.NET, J2EE).