WA1788 Application Development with AJAX and Web Services Training Outline (Coming Soon)

1. AJAX Review

• Objectives
• Defining AJAX
• Key Components
• AJAX Use Cases
• Common Patterns
• Advantages of AJAX
• Disadvantages of AJAX
• Summary

2. JavaScript DOM Review

• Objectives
• Element Hierarchy
• DOM Standardization
• The Document Object
• Nodes and Elements
• The Element Object
• DOM Manipulation Examples
• Element Event Handlers
• Event Handling Strategies
• Event Handling Examples
• Summary

3. Introduction to Web Services

• Objectives
• What is a Web Service?
• Web Service Quotes
• Enterprise Assets as Services
• Typical Development Workflow
• Advantages of Web Services
• Utilizing Web Services
• Binding via SOAP
• SOAP in Protocol Stack
• SOAP Structure
• SOAP Message Architecture
• SOAP HTTP Request Example
• SOAP HTTP Response Example
• Applying SOAP
• WSDL Overview
• Interface via WSDL
• WSDL Structure
• Applying WSDL
• Key Elements of WSDL
• Simple Example
• A Simple Operation Defined
• Instructor Demo
• WS-I Overview
• WS-I Deliverables
• RESTful Services
• REST vs WS-*
• REST Request Example
• REST Response Example
• Interoperable RESTful services
• Summary

4. Consuming SOAP Services with AJAX

• Objectives
• Building a SOAP service request message
• Passing data to a SOAP service
• Calling a SOAP service synchronously
• Parsing SOAP response data
• Seeing a complete example
• Calling a SOAP service asynchronously
• Polling a service for result data
• Seeing a complete example
• Handling SOAP faults with AJAX
• Summary

5. Consuming RESTful Services with AJAX

• Objectives
• Building a REST service request message
• Calling a REST service
• Passing data to a REST service
• Handling REST response data
• Seeing a complete example
• Common conventions for working with REST service communication
• Summary

6. Introduction to Syndication Feed Services

• Objectives
• What is Web Syndication?
• Syndication Example
• Syndication Client
• Web Syndication Benefits
• Syndication Examples
• Feed Formatting
• RSS
• RSS Example
• Atom
• Atom Example
• Feed Serving and Reading Feeds
• RDF
• RDF Example
• RDF Uses
• Summary

7. Consuming Syndication Feeds with AJAX

• Objectives
• Building an RSS service request message
• Calling an RSS service
• Passing data to an RSS service
• Handling RSS response data
• Seeing a complete example
• Building an ATOM service request message
• Calling an ATOM service
• Passing data to an ATOM service
• Handling ATOM response data
• Seeing a complete example
• Summary

8. Formatting and Styling Service Response Data

• Objectives
• Formatting technologies
• Using Text
• Using HTML
• Using XHTML
• Using XML
• Formatting and styling with CSS
• Working with CSS styles
• Complete CSS example
• Formatting and styling with XSLT
• Working with XSL templates
• Complete XSLT examples
• Summary

9. Introduction to Mashups

• Objectives
• Introduction
• Example ChicagoCrime.org
• Mashup Genres
• Key Components
• Key Component Details
• Retrieving Data
• Data Assembly Details
• Data Format Options
• Data Format Options (cont d)
• Instructor Demo
• Enterprise 2.0 Mashups
• Summary

10. Client-side Mashups with AJAX

• Objectives
• Designing a client-side mashup
• Blending data sources together
• Integrating sources with CSS
• Integrating sources with XSLT
• Complete example #1
• Complete example #2
• Cross-domain scripting problem
• Cross-domain workarounds
• Popular client-side mashup engines
• Summary

11. Working with Service-side Mashups

• Objectives
• Client-side vs server-side mashups
• Designing a server-side mashup
• Blending data sources together
• Integrating sources with XSLT
• Integrating sources programmatically – Java
• Integrating sources programmatically – .NET
• Complete example #1
• Complete example #2
• Managing server-side data models
• Deciding on an output style and format
• Popular server-side mashup engines
• Summary

12. Working with Secure Services

• Objectives
• Opening a secure HTTP connection
• Using AJAX to call secure HTTPS services
• Handling secure HTTPS response messages
• Passing authentication tokens to services
• Working with certificates
• Calling services secured with WS-Security
• Handling encrypted data
• Summary