- Introduction and basic concepts for web services.
- The bases of markup languages and XML.
- XML messages (SOAP).
- Web Service Description (WSDL).
- Web Service Discovery (UDDI).
- WS policy description.
- Coordination of web services (WS coordination and WS transaction).
- Web service composition methods (BPEL4WS).
- Web service security.
- Services of the semantic web (RDF and OWL-S).
- Web services and resources.
- Future trends.
Practical part of the course contains exercises and a project that includes implementation of web services.