INFO-H-511 : Web Services

This course serves as an introduction to web services and its related technologies. The main course objectives and developed competences, as well as the examination modalities are summarized in the course plan (general course information document).

• Course responsible: Stijn Vansummeren (Bâtiment U, étage 4, local UB4.125, Campus Solbosch)
• Assistant: Stefan Eppe

• The course is taught during the second semester
• The course modalities are summarized in the course plan (general course information document)
• The course schedule is available on-line and in offline pdf format

The project (which contributes 10/20 of the overall course score) consists of conceiving, designing, and implementing a web service back-end (and, where needed, front-end). The project must be completed in groups of 2. Read the full assignment.

Important dates:

• February 26 group submission
• March 3 project proposal submission
• March 10 notification of acceptance for project proposals
• March 31 interim report phase 2 due
• May 14 project deadline

• During lecture 1 (slides, handouts), we introduce the course, its organization, and its examination modalities. In addition, we present a detailed overview of the architecture of the Web (including the HTTP protocol), and present a historical motivation for service-oriented computing and Web Services. See HTTP made really easy and these course notes (password protected) for the details (not that the code examples are only for illustration purposes).

• During lecture 2 (slides), we introduced the REST-style approach towards building web services. See these courses notes (password protected) for details.

• This seminar was present by De Ridder, Jasmien and Van Denhouwe, Tania based on this seminar assignment. (The slides of their presentation are on-line.)

• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.

• Both assignments refer to documents in these seminar notes

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Svoboda Ondrej and Kameniar, Irina and Chaji, Mohamed based on this seminar assignment. The slides of their presentation are on-line.

• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Bos, David and Bellen, Ward based on based on this seminar assignment. The slides of the presentation are online.

• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.

• Both assignments refer to documents in these seminar notes.

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Isaac, Komolafe, and Mwerkenrande Victor based on this seminar assignment.
• All other students are asked to perform [https://cs.ulb.ac.be/csbox/data/public/c0e5be.php[|this reading assignment]] in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.
• Both assignments refer to documents in these seminar notes.

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Velasco Aguirre, Julio Cesar, and Moureau, François based on this seminar assignment.
• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.
• Both assignments refer to this and this document.

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Mestereaga, Paul-Catalin and Van Gyseghem, Kevin and Abubakr, Mahmoud based on this seminar assignment. The slides of the presentation are online.
• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.
• Both assignments refer to documents in these seminar notes.

• This seminar will be prepared and presented by Feron, Gaspar and Bogaert, Martin based on this seminar assignment.
• All other students are asked to perform this reading assignment in order to prepare for the seminar, and hold appropriate discussions.
• Both assignments refer to documents in these seminar notes.

• In this lab we will manually query the Web through HTTP requests and programmatically interrogate an RPC-style Web Service (exercises, solutions).

• In this lab we will see an example of how a modern framework (in our case, we will focus on the Play framework) provides facilities to develop and deploy a REST web service (exercises, solutions).

• In this lab we will use and implement SAOP services (exercises, solutions).

• This lab has been dropped.

• In this lab we will see how a REST-based web service can be presented to the user via a user interface. To this purpose, we will use JSON for data interchange and AJAX to build a single page application (exercises, solutions). Temporary exercise zip