Additional Course Information

This is a newly redesigned course. The new version of the course is first offered in Fall 2006 and is aimed at covering the latest service-oriented computing and service-oriented software development concepts, languages, and development environments, including Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service-oriented software development process, as well as the enabling technologies, standards, and tools. This new version replaces the previously offered version The topics given below reflect the materials being covered in this redesigned course.

• Introduction to Distributed Computing Paradigm and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) Paradigm (2 weeks)

• Programming with Concurrency and Multithreading (in Java and in C#) (2 weeks)

• Getting Started with Service-Oriented Software Development and Web Services Development (2 week)

• XML, XML Schema, and XML Document Processing (2 weeks)

• Web-based application development and state management(2 weeks)

• Ontology (RDF, RDF Schema, and others) and Database (2 week)

• Security and reliability (2 weeks)

This course will mainly use Microsoft Visual Studio .Net as the main programming environment. To use .Net to develop Web services, you need to have the Windows, with IIS (Internet Information Service) optional component installed. Students registered to a CSE course at ASU will be given an account at MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center (http://msdn07.e-academy.com/asu_eng), where they can download .Net , Windows, and many other software packages.

Reference books for the course

The list of books and references below shows the sources the majority of my lectures is based upon. You do not need to have all these books. I have developed detailed course material based on these sources. However, I cannot cover all the materials in these references and it would be useful to obtain some of these references if you want see more extensive coverage on certain topics.

• Jeff Prosise, Programming Microsoft .Net, Microsoft Press, 2002, ISBN0-7356-1376-1.
• Matjaz B. Juric, et al., Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS, Packt Publishing; 2nd edition Jan 30, 2006, ISBN: 1904811817.
• Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, and Nigel Watling, Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on, Sams Press, May 25, 2006, ISBN: 0672328771.
• Y. Chen and W.T. Tsai, Introduction to programming languages: Programming in C, C++, Scheme, Prolog, C#, and SOA, second edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7575-2974-7.
• Singh, M. P., M. N. Huhns, Service-Oriented Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Atrium, 2005, ISBN: 0-470-09148-7.
• Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.Net Applications, Microsoft Press, 2006, ISBN 0-735-62177-2.
• A. Gomez-Perez, O. Corcho, M. Fernandez-Lopez, Ontological Engineering, Springer-Verlag, London, 2004, ISBN: 1-852-33551-3.
• David Pallmann, Programming INDIGO, Microsoft Press, 2005, ISBN: 0-7356-2151-9.
• David Platt, Introducing Microsoft .Net, Microsoft Press, 2001, ISBN 0-7356-1377-X.
• X. Jia, Object-Oriented Software Development Using Java, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• Java multithread: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/threads/index.html
• A C# book and a Java book (or online materials)

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