This theoretical training course is designed for architects, project managers and decision-makers.

Pre-requisites:
• None

Ratio of theory to practice:
• This training course is made up of theoretical presentations punctuated with concrete examples, used to pragmatically illustrate the concepts presented. These examples take the form of descriptions of typical architectures.

Objectives
Today, Web Service technology is more and more unavoidable and is presented as being the new model for software architectures. This technology encompasses several concepts and is in the process of becoming the new standard in terms of B2B integration and exchange.
Analysis carried out by organizations such as the Gartner Group show that Web Services will peak in 2004 and that already 52% of American companies will make this architectural choice from the end of 2003 onwards.
Working in the domain of B2B integration, Web Services have already led to the appearance of higher-level solutions, entirely based on these new software architectures. Here, business Web Services or indeed Web Services workflow management are concerned.
During this training course, you will learn about the key points related to Web Services, as well as discovering all the terms frequently used in this new age of software architectures: WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, XML, WSFL, BTP, Xlang, ebXML, etc...

Introduction to Web Services

Market standards and participants

Web Service architecture
• SOAP
• WSDL
• UDDI

Technologies underlying Web Services
• XML
• Servlet

Integration into information systems
• CORBA
• DCOM
• J2EE

Tools available in the marketplace
• BEA, IBM, ...

Some examples of deployed projects

Specification work in progress

Close-up on Web Services

Security management
• Firewall
• SSL
• XKMS
• WS-Security
• Single-sign-on

Transaction management
• BTP

Case study

Definition of technical services and business services

B2B exchange management
• EbXML
• Biztalk

Business process management
• Xlang
• WSCL
• WSFL
• BPML