there's one in every class

Mar 28, 2013 23:09

Today I attended a day-long class on web-service technologies. (Yeah, late to the party.) Being a programmer was not a prerequisite (though it helped), and most people there weren't. This wasn't so much about programming and software design as about getting from WSDLs (web-service specifications) to code and vice-versa, and about understanding ( Read more... )

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sethg_prime March 29 2013, 03:28:37 UTC
A class in WS-Death-Star technologies where being a programmer was not a prerequisite?!

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cellio March 29 2013, 03:36:17 UTC
That part of the class wasn't about implementation but rather what the key ones are for, why you might care, etc -- business/system-engineering stuff, not make-it-work stuff. (E.g. we didn't actually touch anything that used WS-Security, WS-Adddressing, etc, just talked about them.)

Having integrated with, but never built, web services, I was familiar with some of the material already, but I took it because there was a lot I didn't know how to do. I'd guess that I got a few hours' worth of knowledge out of the day-long class, which I'm not unhappy about. That said, there exists a follow-on class for Java programmers and I think that would be more up my alley, if I can arrange for them to bring it in. In the meantime, I've asked my manager to approve some "just exploring on my own to solidify what I learned" time to actually, y'know, go write something.

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