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Web Services: A Perspective. Jim Farmer As presented at the Common Solutions Group Meeting May 9, 2002 Chicago, Illinois. Web Services defined. An information technology architecture for the exchange of business messages using open-standards. The business case.
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Web Services: A Perspective Jim Farmer As presented at theCommon Solutions Group Meeting May 9, 2002 Chicago, Illinois
Web Services defined An information technology architecture for the exchange of business messages using open-standards.
The business case • Originally, the exchange of data with others. • Now, integration between disparate application, disparate computer systems, disparate operating systems, disparate programming languages—the Enterprise Application Integration EAI bus. ___________________________________________ ”Getting access to stove-piped data is the primary reason for implementing Web services.” Uttam Nasrsu GIGA Information Group At the FSA CIO Update Conference Arlington, Virginia, May 8, 2002
The standards • Data XML • Validation Schema • Transport SOAP (real-time) SMTP (batch) • Security SAML • Description WSDL • Directory UDDI • Transformation XSLT Note: Message content is not defined by any of these standards.
In higher education • Digital library search and retrieval (Columbia, Cornell) • Transcripts (California Community Colleges, Florida, Arizona, Ohio) • Student Aid (NCHELP, U.S. Department of Education) • Security (Internet 2 Shibboleth) • Portals (JA-SIG)
Why XML and SOAP? “[XML and SOAP] will become a widely implemented ‘standard’ because they are simple.” Barry Walsh University of Indiana at the FSA CIO Update Conference Arlington, Virginia May 8, 2002
Typical SOAP implementation HTML over HTTP SOAP over HTTPS College Target Data Provider Access Provider
Meteor prototype model Web Services HTML Meteor XML Student Access Provider Data Provider
Authentication and authorization TLS Authentication Login & Password SAML Assertion College Target Data Provider Access Provider ebXML Security Profile 3 Non-persistent confidentiality and non-persistent authentication
Building web services • Web services architecture overview 2 find UDDI Service Web service requestor look up web service 3 bind 4 call Call Web Service 1 publish Retrieve WSDLDefinition Register Web Service(at development time) Web service provider WSDL Document
The End Jim Farmer instructional media + magic, inc. jxf@immagic.com