Aayaam 2007
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The NextGen Web is here, are you prepared?

Web Services

The W3C defines a Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just application programming interfaces (API) that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services. Generally this refers to those services that use SOAP-formatted XML envelopes and have their interfaces described by WSDL.

Web Services are based upon the following protocols to allow service provides and consumers to communicate.

  1. SOAP: An XML-based, extensible message envelope format, with "bindings" to underlying protocols (e.g., HTTP, SMTP and XMPP).
  2. WSDL: An XML format that allows service interfaces to be described, along with the details of their bindings to specific protocols.
  3. UDDI: A protocol for publishing and discovering metadata about Web services, to enable applications to find Web services, either at design time or runtime.
  4. WS-Security: Defines how to use XML Encryption and XML Signature in SOAP to secure message exchanges.
  5. WS-ReliableMessaging: A protocol for reliable messaging between two Web services.
  6. WS-Reliability: An OASIS standard protocol for reliable messaging between two Web services.

Towards the Next Generation Web, CSE, IITB brings forth Aayaam, a technical symposium on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Semantic Web. The Web as we have known it has been undergoing tremendous ferment over the last few years. The lack of a functional view of the web has spawned web services and the lack of meaning lead to the emergence of the Semantic Web.

The evolution of these technologies allow sharing of computational power and has enabled development of modular, integrated, complex but user friendly web. We bring together experts across the country from industry and academia working in the field of SOA and semantic web to provide an integrated view of their experiences and research.

Aayaam-07

Aayaam is the 8th in the series of workshops held at Computer Science & Engineering Department, IITB. Aayaam this year examines the evolution of Next Generation Web. Since 1999, CSE has been orgainizing this workshop as SecNet, a leading event for professionals in the software industry and academia focussing on Network Security. Previous workshops have had participants from IBM, Microsoft, Indian Navy, National Stock Exchange(NSE), TCS, Patni Computers, VSSC(Vikram Sarabhai Space Center), RedHat India, and various academic institutions across the country.

Focus areas

  • Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)
  • Web-service standards and Protocols
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies(OWL)
  • Performance, Resource sharing and load balancing
  • Technologies: Web 2.0, SAAS, Mash-Ups
  • Protocols: SOAP REST
  • Convergence of SOA and Sementic Web
  • Security issues in SOA

Who should attend?

The workshop primarily targets Software professionals from the software industry and consultancy services. This workshop would be of great benefit to IT managers, web-developers and researchers working in the field of SOA, webservices and Web 2.0 We aim to bring together experts from Industry and Academia and provide a common forum for professionals, reserachers and students to interact and exchange ideas. Preliminary knowledge in XML and Javascript would be assumed.

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