I am opening up old courseware to the world on a “pay if you like it” or have it free basis.
My fourth offering is SOAP/WebServices Overview.
(You will find other offerings in this site’s DonationWare Category.)
This course was created in mid-2003.
It was a quick, one-day overview/review of the current “state of the art.”
How things change!
I remember going down to Sydney to give this course on behalf of “A Famous Database Company” for a group of South Korean V.I.P.s…who (it turned out) did not speak ANY English. The poor translator almost had a nervous breakdown. It was a very strange session, almost surreal!
Here’s the ‘blurb’:
The new internet-focussed software architectures now on the drawing boards of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the major vendors are being planned around a triumvirate of standards-oriented XML-based technologies: SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol; WebServices; and UDDI, the Universal Description Discovery and Integration system. These new technologies are fated to become ever more important as they slowly assume the role of underpinning major initiatives such as Microsoft’s .NET and grow to provide the foundation for much of what HP, IBM and the various members of the open source community are intending to provide for the next iteration of the Internet.
This session will provide an overview of the new business-to-business technologies that are being promulgated for what some cynics have called “basically a more object-oriented, somewhat buzzword-compliant upgrade to CGI” and others have more charitably called the “grown up internet.”
The course is now well and truly at End of Life.
I figure that it would be such a pity for it to end as a set of bits decaying away on my hard disk so I am opening it up to the world on as “as-is” basis:
sws-courseware-donationware.04.july.2009.zip
(MD5: 150f88d70d5a86d1129af4e21059594c; size: 6,692,573 bytes)
Some (unfortunately necessary) legalese:
- This content is provided “as-is”, with no guarantees.
- Feel free to use it, but not to abuse it (to give a couple of examples: don’t make hundreds of copies for friends; don’t claim it as your own work).
- I retain copyright, so “all rights reserved.”
Enjoy!
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