XML and Enterprise Applications Integration 
Friday, 1-5 p.m. November 14, 2003 
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., November 15, 2003 
Presented by 

Paul Lin, Professor and Chair 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology 
Purdue University Fort Wayne Campus 

Course Description and Objectives 
http://www.etcs.ipfw.edu/~lin

Course Description: In this course, attendees will learn basic XML technology, the structure of XML documents, XML syntax, Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Schema standard, XML presentation and formatting languages, and linking XML documents. XML-based applications such as order processing, data exchange and backup, electronics data interchange, e-Commerce, Web services (SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI), and Enterprise Applications Integration will be also discussed. 

Course Highlights 

XML Fundamentals

• Basic XML syntax (declaration, elements, attributes, and contents), XML documents and files

• Document Type Definitions (DTDs): the document type declaration, creating and using DTDs, validating a document, element declarations, attribute declarations, and general entity declarations

• XML Namespaces: namespace syntax, namespace and DTD, using namespaces in XML, and validation 

• WWW XML Schemas Standard: a new means for describing/validating XML document, describing elements, attributes, and data types 

• Internationalization: encoding declaration, XML-defined character sets 

• Form Data Transformation: XSL (Extensible Style Sheet Language) and Transformation (XSLT) 

• XML Data Presentation on the Web

Programming Models 

• Programming API (Application Program Interfaces): SAX, DCOM

• Programming language support: Java, C++, Perl, PHP, APS, ASPX, etc

• Document Object Model (DOM) and methods for manipulating XML data

• Simple API for XML (SAX) for manipulating data from XML documents 

XML-based Applications

• XML and e-Commerce, XML and Distributed Applications, XML

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) 

• Web Services: SOAP for cross platform service calls using XML, WSDL for describing web services, and UDDI for universal description, discovery and integration 

Prerequisites: To succeed fully in this course, attendees should have some basic understanding of HTML language. 

Text Book: XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, by Elliotte Rusty Harold & W. Scott Means, from Oreilly Publishing, ISBN 0-596-00292-0 

Topics of Discussion 

1. Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) – An Overview 
2. Tools for Web-Enabled Applications Development 
3. XML Fundamentals 
4. XML Document Type Definition (DTD) 
5. XML Schema 
6. Web Services – An Overview 
7. Web Services Application Examples 
8. XML-EAI Design and Implementation Consideration 
9. SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol 
10. WSDL - Web Service Description Language 
11. UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration 
12. Web Services and Security - References 

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