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Net Framework

Information Integration on the Web

Spring 2003
February 3, 2003
 Information Integration –
Wrapper View

Wrapper &
AgentRunner
Web

Wrapper &
AgentRunner
Web Apache Tomcat

Wrapper &
AgentRunner
Web
Web
 Information Integration – Web
Services View

Web Service

Glue code
Web Service

Web Server

Web Service
Web
 What’s the Difference?
• Web services
– Standard protocols, WSDL, SOAP…
– “Easy” integration using commercial tools
– Restricted to web sites that are web services
– Less than 0.01% of web is in web service format
• Wrappers
– Can support more web sites compared to web services
– Integration using academic tools may be little harder
compared to commercial tools for web services
– No standard protocols
 Overview

• Web services
• Web services protocols
• Develop web services
• Consume web services
What We Are Not Going to Cover
About .Net

• We don’t expect you to become experts at

C# or VB.NET

What We Are Going to Cover

About .Net
• Develop Web Services
• Consume Web Services
• Build simple applications with C#, VS.NET
 Web Services Defined

• Definition
– According to IBM “web services are self-
contained, modular applications that can be
described, published, located, and invoked over
a network, generally, the world wide web”
– According to Microsoft “a web service is
programmable application logic, accessible
using standard internet protocols”
 Web Services: Major Protocols

• XML
• SOAP
• WSDL
• UDDI
Developing .Net Framework Web
Service

Hands on Lab
Create Hello World Web Service
Develop a simple web service that
sends a message Hello World.
 Creating Hello World Web
Service

When VS.NET comes up click on new project to begin

Tip: VS.NET can make machine run really slow, be patient
 Creating Hello World Web
Service (Cont’d)

Pick Visual C# projects and select ASP.NET Web Service

Tip: Remember the location of your web service, also make sure IIS
is running on the machine.
 Creating Hello World Web
Service (Cont’d)

You will see the standard VS.NET IDE, click on switch to code view
to see the code behind the web service
 Creating Hello World Web
Service (Cont’d)

Uncomment the four lines that have code for Hello World method.
Developing .Net Framework Web
Service

Hands on Lab
Create Hello World Web Service
Let’s See Web Service in Action
 Hello World Web Service
• What just happened?
– VS.NET created test page for hello world
– VS.NET also created WSDL for hello world
– VS.NET also enabled hello world to ‘talk’
SOAP, WSDL and XML over HTTP
• Why do we care about WSDL?
– WSDL can be used by programs like VS.NET
or users to integrate our web service with their
apps or web services
 Web Services

• Building blocks for building applications

that integrate information
Name, Address, Geocoded
Lat, Long, Rating Restaurant List
with Ratings

Geocoded Name, Address,

City, State Restaurant List Lat, Long Rating Ratings

Address

Restaurant List Name, Address Lat, Long Geocode

Integrating Web Services Using
Visual Studio.Net

Hands on Lab
Calculator Example
Develop a windows application that
accepts two numbers and an
operation and calls appropriate web
service to provide the result
Integrating Web Services Using
Visual Studio.Net

Hands on Lab
Calculator Example
Let’s See the Application in Action
 Conclusion
• Issues
– Web services coverage
– Web services discovery
– Object identification
– Web service content description
• Solutions
– Web services discovery
• Directory services, e.g. UDDI
– Web service content description
• Resource description framework(RDF), semantic web ??
– Object identification
• Active learning techniques ??
 Conclusion (Cont’d)

• More information on .Net framework

– http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ click on .Net
development
– http://www.gotdotnet.com
• Questions, comments?