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Web services allow applications to communicate over the web through standardized XML messaging. They are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over the web. Common standards for web services include SOAP, WSDL, UDDI.

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Webservices

Web services allow applications to communicate over the web through standardized XML messaging. They are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over the web. Common standards for web services include SOAP, WSDL, UDDI.

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WEB SERVICES

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Summary:

 Introduction
 Definition
 Web Service Model
 Web Service Architecture
 Web Service in action
 Advantages
 Web Service Development Lifecycle
 Tools
 References
Introduction
 A Software Service is a something that accepts
digital requests and returns digital responses e.g. C
function, a Java Object
 A computer application can be thought of
as a well-orchestrated set of services
 Web Services are a new breed of software component
that is a language, platform, and location indipendent
 Is accessible over the web
 Web services are an abbrevation for Web of Services

 Distributed applications will be assembled


from a web of software services
Web Service
 Is registred and can be located through
a Web service registry.
 Communicate using XML message over
standard Web protocols.
 Support loosely-coupled connections
between systems.
Definition of Web Service

“A Web service is an interface that


describes a collection of operations that
are network-accessibile through
standardized XML messaging.”

Heather Kreger
IBM Software Group
The Web Services Model
 The Web service architecture is based upon the
interactions between three roles:

application that is looking for and invoking an interaction


Service
with a service Registry owner of the services

Service
searchable Service publish
registry where service provider
Requestor Provider
their service descriptions and where service find service
The Web Services Model
 Others element are:
Service
Description
Service
Registry

Service
Description
Service Service
Requestor Provider
Service
The Web Services Model
 Others element are:
Service
Description

Contains details of the interface and


implementation of the service

Service
Description

It is a software module deployed on the


network-accessible platforms provided by Service
the service provider
The Web Services Model
 The interactions involve the publish, find and bind operation

Service
Registry

Find Publish

Service Bind Service


Requestor Provider
The Web Service Stack
Standard Tecnologies Requirements

WSFL Service Flow


Service

Quality of services
UDDI
Discovery

Management
Service

Security
UDDI publication

WSDL Service Descrip


tion

SOAP XML-Based M
essaging
HTTP, FTP, email, MQ, etc Network
The Network
Web services must be network-accessible

For its ubiquity

 HTTP is the standard network protocol for internet-


available Web Services
 Others network protocols are SMTP, FTP and for intranet
domain: MQSeries, CORBA
XML-based Messaging
 Represent the use of XML as the basis for the messaging
protocol
 The current industry standard for XML messaging is
SOAP
 IBM, Microsoft, Sun and others submitted SOAP to the
W3C
 SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
 Is a simple and lightweight XML-based mechanism for
exchanging structured data beetween network
applications
SOAP

 Lightweight communication protocol


 For communication between applications
one-way, request/response, multicast, etc..
 Designed to communicate via HTTP
 Not tied to any component technology
 Not tied to any programming language
 Based on XML
 Simple and extensible
SOAP

 SOAP consists of three parts:


 An envelope that defines a framework for describing
what is in a message
 A set of encoding rules for expressing istances of
application-defined data types
 A convention for representing remote procedure calls
and responses
SOAP

Application
Application web service
1 4 3 2
SOAP SOAP
Network protocol Network protocol

Request/Response
Service Description:
From XML to Web services
 Service provider comunicates all the specifications
through service description

 The service description combined with SOAP


infrastructure hides details as platform, programming
language from the service requestror’s application
and the service provider’s Web Service

 Web service uses WSDL for base-level service description


WSDL
 WSDL: Web Service Definition Language
 is an XML-based language used to define Web
Services and describe how to access them
 Industry standard W3C

Service
Implementation
Service
Definition Port

Binding
Service
PortType
Interface
Definition Message
Type
Discovery and Publication:
UDDI
 Stands for Universal Description, Discovery and
Integration

 Defines a way to publish and discover information


about web services

 Collaboration between Microsoft, IBM, Ariba that


resulted in the creation of web service registry

 Not standard
UDDI
 Defines a data structure standard for representing
service description information in XML

 The core component of the UDDI project is the UDDI


business registration, an XML file used to describe a
business entity and its Web services
UDDI

 The UDDI Business Registry can be used at a business


level
– To check whether a given partner has particular Web
service interfaces.
– To find companies in a given industry with a given
type of services.
– To locate information about how a partner or
intended partner has exposed a Web service in order
to learn the technical details required to interact with
that service
WSFL Overview

 Web Service Flow Language (WSFL) is an XML language


for the description of Web Services Composition
 It is possible to produce web services by composing web
services
 Intra-enterprise web services might collaborate to
present a single Web Service Interface to the public
 Web services from different eneterprises might
collaborate to perform business to business transactions
 Service Flow described how service-to-service
communications, collaborations and flows are performed.
Web Service in Action: B2B
Customer

Supplier Credit Bureau

Warehouse Check validity


Account Service
Service
Advantages
 Interoperability:
 Any web services can interact with any other web
service
 Ubiquity:
 Web services communicate using HTTP and XML.

 Low Barrier to Entry:


 The concepts behind web services are easy to
understand and toolkits are frely available from
many vendors
 Industry Support:
 All the major vendor are supporting SOAP and the
surrounding web services standards
Web Services Development
Lifecycle
 The development lifecycle can have four phase:
– BUILD :
» development and testing of the web service implementation
» definition of the services interface description
» definition of the service implementation description
– DEPLOY :
» publication of the services interface and service implementation
– RUN :
» The web service is available for invocation
» The web service is fully deployed, operational and network-
accessible from the services provider
» Now the service requestor can perform the find and bind
operations
– MANAGE :
» Covers ongoing management and administration of the web
services application
Tools
 Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0

 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and .NET Framework

 Apache SOAP Toolkit and AXIS

 IBM Web Services Toolkit

 SUN JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)


Example:
Airport Weather Service
Interface:
getLocation()
getWind()
getTemperature()
Airport Weather getSky()
getPressure()
getHumidity()
getSummary()

More informations:
Web Interface:
http://live.capescience.com/AirportWeather/index.html
References
 About SOAP :
http://www.w3c.org/TR/soap
 About WSDL :
http://www.w3c.org/TR/wsdl
 About UDDI :
http://www.uddi.org
 About WSFL :
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservices
Other Papers
 About Web service Architecture:
 Web Services Conceptual Architecture (WSCA
1.0) -Heather Kreger - IBM SW Group
 About Web service development lifecycle:
 Web Services Development Concepts (WSDC
1.0) -Peter Brittenham- IBM SW Group
 About Web service model:
 Web Services : Building Blocks for Distributed
System -Graham Glass -
The End
Web Server in Action (2/2)

Application

WSDL

SOAP Interoperability

HTTP
XML
 XML: eXtensible Markup Languages

 A version of HTML that allows any kind of data to be


represented in a simple and portable way

<giocatore id = 212>
<nome> Davide <\nome>
<cognome> Zerbino <\cognome>
<\giocatore>

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