A Web service is an application component deployed on a Web
accessible platform, provided by a service provider to be discovered
and invoked over the Web by a service requestor. Service-oriented
architectures, the underlying architectural style of Web services,
combine ideas from component-based and distributed systems, adding
the idea of services as loosely coupled components that may be
discovered and linked at runtime. Applications range from enterprise
application integration, via electronic commerce, to dynamic
e-business scenarios and the Internet of Things.
The lecture shall give an introduction to two basic technologies
that underly Web services, XML and SOAP-based services as well as REST services,
and present a systematic, model-based development approach using the UML.
This includes the specification of service interfaces by means of UML diagrams, the systematic (and
partly automatic) generation of the corresponding service
descriptions, the implementation of services and their clients in Java and the model-based testing of services.
