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The lecture Software Service Engineering is typically offered in the winter semester.
SWS (L/T/S/P): 2/2/0/0
Language: English
Credits: 5 LP (150 hours workload)
Exam: 90-minute written exam (exam number 55309), can be taken in German or English

Service-oriented architectures comprise an important standard-based and technology-independent solution kit component for modern Web- and Cloud software development. SOA as a paradigm for distributed computing and the basis of modern distributed software carries a variety of benefits. Thus, there exist numerous architectural styles for identification, use, interconnection, implementation and dissemination of loosely-coupled software services and those accessible over the Internet or Web. The module presents basic approaches, concepts, technologies, protocols and principles of modern software services and deepens on their systematic use in the field of web engineering, as well as in SOA and distributed software. The topics to be covered in detail are, among others:

• XML-based Web Services
• REST architecture style
• SOA components
• Principles and patterns, such as Business Process Choreography, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Challenges for software services in the business environment
• Modelling and life cycle

• Solving fundamental questions and problems in the operation of service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Applying classical protocols, such as HTTP, SOAP and WS-*, as well as service-oriented architectures and architectural styles
• Design, construction, implementation and operation of Software Services in the context of Distributed Software

• Computer Networks
• XML

• Lecture: Tuesday, 17:15–18:45, weekly, online (digital)
• Tutorial: Tuesday, 07:30–09:00, weekly, room A10.205
• Tutorial: Tuesday, 09:15–10:45, weekly, room A10.205

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