Agenda

• SOA and Web Services - Dominik Zyskowski and Wojciech Rutkowski, The Poznań University of Economics, Poland
• Web services and Semantic Web Services- problems and challenges - Monika Kaczmarek and Dominik Zyskowski, The Poznań University of Economics, Poland
• Strategic aspects of Web services - Juergen Seitz, University of Cooperative Education, Berufsakademie Heidenheim, Germany
• Mobile use case: using Web services to achieve distributed and mobile access to enterprise resources - Paweł Żebrowski, The Poznań University of Economics, Poland
• Case Study: Web Services/SOA: Amazon.com - Till Haenisch, University of Cooperative Education, Berufsakademie Heidenheim, Germany
• Practical Aspects:
• Web Service Implementation - hands-on-session
• Preparation of Web Service Description
• Service Oriented Architecture - development of model for mobile solution

Web Services Summer School organized in June 2006 at the Poznan University of Economics involved students from The Poznan University of Economics as well as from University of Cooperative Education, Berufsakademie Heidenheim to work together in order to prepare web services-based implementation solving defined real-life problem. During one week of lectures, laboratories (hands-on-sessions) students worked in order to fully undestrand current trends in Software Enginnering and try to implement them in their own project.

In the beginning of the course there were introduced with advanced web services topics. Furthermore some new approaches to SOA architectures were presented. Then an example showing how to model and implement SOA-based solution was introduced. During the course students were divided in groups, each of them modeled and implemented a composite application. The result of the work of each group was presented in the final seminar presentation.

After accomplishing one week of lectures, laboratories and consultations students went to their companies in order to prepare real-world soultion solving the problem identified in the company that should be modeled and partly implemented in web services technology.

Participants

25 Students from:

• The Poznań University of Economics - 10 students
• Berufsakademie Heidenheim - 15 students representing different german companies:
• Gehis
• GfG
• Huber Automotive AG
• KIRU
• Metro AG
• MGI
• Paul Hartmann AG
• Uniklinik Ulm
• Wieland

Full list of participants is available at the Poznan University of Economics.