2524c Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft Asp.Net en Tijuana

Lesson 1: The Need for XML Web Services

• Describing the evolution of distributed applications.

• Identifying the problems with traditional distributed application architectures and technologies.

• Describing XML Web services and briefly explaining how they address the design problems in traditional distributed applications.

• Listing the alternate options for distributed application development.

• Identifying the kinds of scenarios where XML Web services are an appropriate solution.

Lesson 2: XML Web Service Architectures

• Identifying how XML Web service architectures are a type of service-oriented architecture.

• Describing the elements of an XML Web service architecture and explaining their roles.

• Describing the XML Web service programming model.

Lesson 3: The Underlying Technologies of XML Web Services

• Describing the structures of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request and response.

• Issuing HTTP POST and GET requests and processing the responses by using the .NET Framework.

• Describing data types by using the XML Schema Definition language (XSD).

• Explaining how to control the way a .NET Framework object is serialized to XML.

• Describing the structures of a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) request and response.

• Issuing a SOAP request and processing the response by using the .NET Framework.

Lesson 4: Consuming XML Web Services

• Explaining the structure of a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document.

• Explaining the XML Web services discovery process.

• Locating service contracts by using Disco.exe.

• Generating XML Web service proxies by using Wsdl.exe.

• Implementing an XML Web service consumer by using Visual Studio .NET.

• Invoking an XML Web service synchronously and asynchronously by using an XML Web service proxy.

Lesson 5: Implementing a Simple XML Web Service

• Creating an XML Web service project.

• Implementing XML Web service methods, exposing them, and controlling their behavior.

• Managing state in an ASP.NET-based XML Web service.

• Debugging XML Web services.

Lesson 6: Publishing and Deploying XML Web Services

• Explaining the role of UDDI in XML Web services.

• Publishing an XML Web service in a UDDI registry by using the UDDI SDK.

• Searching a UDDI registry to locate XML Web services by using the UDDI SDK.

• Explaining the various options for publishing an XML Web service on an intranet.

• Explaining some of the options for modifying the default configuration of an XML Web service.

Lesson 7: Securing XML Web Services

• Identifying the differences between authentication and authorization.

• Explaining how to use the security mechanisms that Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows provide forauthentication.

• Using SOAP headers for authentication in an XML Web service.

• Using role-based security and code access security for authorization in an XML Web service.

• Encrypting the communication between an XML Web service consumer and an XML Web service.

Lesson 8: Designing XML Web Services

• Identifying the restrictions that are imposed on data types by the various XML Web services protocols.

• Explaining how the use of Application and Session state can affect the performance and scaling of XML Web services.

• Explaining how to use output and data caching to improve XML Web service performance.

• Implementing caching in an XML Web service.

• Explaining how asynchronous XML Web service methods can improve performance.

• Explaining the need for instrumenting XML Web services.

• Identifying the components of an XML Web service that can be versioned.

• Explaining how to implement a virtual XML Web service by using screen scraping.

• Implementing an XML Web service that uses multiple XML Web services.

• Identifying the trade-offs in the techniques that are used for exposing aggregated XML Web services.

Lesson 9: Global XML Web Services Architecture

• Describe limitations inherent to the specifications with which todays XML Web services are built.

• Describe the design principles and specifications of Global XML Web services Architecture (GXA).

• Describe XML Web service application scenarios made possible by Web Services Routing Protocol (WS-Routing) and Web Services Referral Protocol (WS-Referral).

• Explain how to use Web Services Security Language (WS-Security) and Web Services License Language (WS-License) to perform authentication and authorization for XML Web services.

• Design XML Web services that anticipate and can leverage the features that GXA will offer when released.