Sonoma State University
CS Colloquium | September 4, 2008

Exploring Web Services And Service-Oriented Architecture

Peter Thompson, Sonoma State University Alumnus

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

What are Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture? What are they good for? How do they work? I'll walk through some scenarios and dig into some of the code that enables platform agnostic interactions. Along the way, I'll show how being familiar with procedural, declarative, and object-oriented, pattern-based programming in a distributed computing environment can help demystify this complex and important topic. I am by no means an expert on this. This talk is as much about how I am approaching the problem of needing to stay current with industry standards as it is about the technology itself. I'll share a list of tools and learning resources I have encountered so far.